Second advent library

INLlcrullxrn.Jesus Christ has been published by the translation andcirculation of' the word of' God, how different the scene!Now, we can hardly find aRoms.n Catholic who will pretend that heaven is purchased by iufliction of' bodily torture,by doing penance, or bya monastic seclusion fromthe world; neither do we see them selling indulgences,and promising the holders don for the most abominablecrimes. And but rarei;u-do we hear the infallibilityof the mother, or holy Catholic church, advanced frompulpit or press. Why this mighty change in public sentiment?Because thereign of grace is not withheld;the two witnesses are no onger clothed in sackcloth;"Michael has stood up, that standeth for the children ofthy people." And the "angel is flying through themidst of' heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preachto them that dwell on the earth." "And have powerover the waters to turn them to blood." By waters, weunderstandThis text haspeople; and by blood, wars.been amply fu lled in the wars of Europe, fighting forreligious tenets and ecclesiastical power, claiming theirprerogatives from t.he two witnesses, and wresting andperverting the word of' God to their own destruction."And from thence come wars, tumults, fightings," becauseunderstand not. "And to smite the earthwith all thely p sgues, as often asthey will." In Old Testamenttimes, it was the word of God, tlnough Moses andAaron, that smote Egypt with the ten plagues, andthrough Joshua the Cansanites. So, in New Testamenttimes, the seven last plagues, and the three woes, aredenounced against the anti-Christian beast, who dwellson and has great power over the earth. "As often asthey will," meaning as often as they have rophesied ofthem, so often will the plagues Rot be sent. one jot ortittle of tho word of' God will fail.7th "verse, And' when they shall have finished theirtestimony," that is, when the 1260 years are about fulfilled,the "beast that ascendeth out of' the bottomlessit;" this beast is the same as the little horn, Papalitome, and is said to ascend out of' the bottomless pit,because it is ibuntled on error. The principles taughtby this beast were iirst Paganism, and ended in Deism,