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cua|s'r's ucoxn comme. 149strictly the letter Paccordinglto WitnessGreat Britain,Germany, and o er nations. And to this day she halnot been able to bring into subjection any of the Protestantstates, and is only permitted to dwell among them bytoleration. And although within a few years past sheseems to be making an ed'ort to regain her lost powerand authority, yet it is but a last struggle, a d ing gasp;for soon she must and will fall, to rise in civil power nomore forever.10th verse, "Because thou hast kept the word of mypatience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptationwhich shall come upon all the world to try them thatdwell upon the earth." This part of the prophecy wasfulfilled on or before the French revolution, when Atheismand Deism made such rapid progress throughEurope or the Roman apvemment, which in pro hecy iscalled the earth. See ev.xii.9. And it is athot, thatthrough this age of proiligacy and corruption, the churchretained her principles as pure and with as little defectionas anyage in modern times; menalthoughof theworld were le awaby the plausible wntings of Vol-it had no efecttaire, Hume, Tom gains, and others, yeton the Christian church: and thepromise, " I will keepthee from the hour of wastemptation, fully and faithfullyaccomplished; and the very means that Satan usedto destroy the religion of Jesus Christ, or " the twelvehhermen," was the means of bringing thechurch outof the wildeme . And those vernments of the worldwhich had for more than tweife centuries persecutedthe children of God, now granted free toleration for allmen to worship God accordin to the dictates of theiron conscience. And fi-om this period we may see the"l dying through the midst of heaven havinge thegostpel to preach to them that dwell on thesaith." ow e church began to awake to the subjectofimissions; and while the world wastempted and tried,thshingdoms of .the earth shaken to their centre, (yetnsNle|troyed;) while the civil power of the mother oflnrlots, the inquisition of Spain, and the horrible meansof -tostnre, persecution, slavery, and cruelty,were allneptawayinpge revolution,- the church, by the power