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aTHE TWO LIBERTIES. 429each being independent within its own province. This is abeautiful arrangement ; it maintains an admirable harmonyof forces ;and so long as that balance remains un destroyed,the rights of society cannot be vitally or permanently injured.These two co-ordinate jurisdictions resemble two friendlyand independent kingdoms, between whom a league offensiveand defensive has been formed ; so that whenever oneis attacked and in danger of being overborne, the otherhastens to its succour. The history of the world shows thatcivil liberty and ecclesiastical bondage cannot stand together,and that the converse of the proposition is true,—people spiritually free cannot long remain politically enslaved.Thus has God provided a double safeguard for liberty.Driven from the one domain, she can retreat into the other.Expelled from the first ditch, she can make good her standin the second. The outer rampart of civil independence maybe demolished ; she can maintain the battle, and, it may be,conquer, from the inner citadel. The present eventful perioddemonstrates not less clearly than preceding ones, that thetwo liberties are bound up together, and that they mustfight and conquer, or sink and perish, together. But themodern Delilah found out wherein lay' the great strength ofthe strong man.civil and the spiritual jurisdictions.Popery confounded and incorporated theThis union, instead ofbringing strength, as union generally does, brought weakness.It was a fatal blow aimed at the existence of bothliberties. It put manacles upon the arm of both. Hereinlay the great crime of Popery against the rights of society,and especially against the purity and efficiency of that orderof government which God had ordained for the good of men.This act laida foundation for the most monstrous usurpationsand the most intolerable oppressions.This error grew directly out of the fundamental principleof the Papacy. That principle is, that the Pope is the successorof the Prince of the Apostles, and the Vicar of Christ.In virtue of thisassumed character, the pontiff" claimed towield on earth the whole of that jurisdiction which Christ