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and her children; and thou art the sister ofthy sisters, which loathed their husbands andtheir children: your mother was a Hittite,and your father an Amorite.— The Hittites,Amorites, Samaritans and Sodomites were allworshipers of Baal and Astarte, under one nameor another, and were adepts in the heathen andimmoral beliefs and practices of that religion,typical not of fleshly but of spiritual uncleanness,as explained in foregoing pages. The trueChurch's father was our Father, her mother theSarah Covenant of Grace, and her espousedhusband, Christ. Ecclesiasticism's parentage, asbecometh the "dwellers in the summits." theproud "best" people, was the proud, selfsufficientone, the Devil (John 8:44.) Romanismand Protestantism are begotten, not by the Wordof God, but by the words of pride, of selfishness,of earthly ambition. Her mother was of theHittites, a commercial people, descendants ofHam, under Divine disapproval; her spiritualmother was the false promises of humantradition, which would barter a Divine promisefor an earthly meal; she loves compromise, andknows not principle. "Like mother, likedaughter."FM444Ezekiel 16:46.And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and herdaughters that dwell at thy left hand; and thyyounger sister, that dwelleth at thy righthand, is Sodom and her daughters.— Samariaand Sodom were worshipers of Baal. With likeparentage, ecclesiasticism is a sister religion withthe heathen religions, even acknowledging inmany volumes the unity of all religions, herselfincluded. Samaria, the ten apostate tribes,mingled the religion of Jehovah with that ofBaal— a fit religious sister of the "nominalchurch,"which reads the Bible and serves the godof selfishness. Samaria elsewhere types notmerely ecclesiasticism's sister, but churchianityherself. Sodom, here named Jerusalem's(ecclesiasticism's) sister religion, is directlyidentified as churchianity in Rev. 11:8— "The