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,r.r:c-run:272_xvm.=stead of ablessing ? I am bold to say, Nowhere! Andonething more I am bold to That kind of saymoralitywhich requires the aid of the political world to enforceit, is a hurlot in disguise, and her path is the way todeath; in her secret chambers you will find war, rapine,and murder, and in lrer train will be seen revenge, hatred,envy, and division. These are the temptations ofthe church when in the city of the nations.2dly. What has been her character when in thecity ?~ Answer: When the Jews left the wilderness, andentered into Canaan, their manna, with which they hadbeen fed while travelling in the wilderness, ceased, andthey fed on the old corn of the land. This manna wasatype of the spiritual food given by God to his children,while under his immediate control and care. See Rev.ii. 17. Old corn is a fit resemblance of the worldlyrights, privileges, and possessions among the nations ofthe earth. The Jews, almost immediately after theytook possession of the land of Canaan, began to mixthemselves with the inhabitants around them, and becamemenpleasers, and a nation of idolaters; and thevery things which Moses charged them against, becamethe common occurrences of the day; and on accountof which God suffered their enemies to bring them intobondage, and, from a powerful people, that had madekin tremble even upon the report of them while in thewildzmess, now became a weak and degraded people, atributary nation, a band of slaves to their enemies; andthe prophecy of Moses, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15-20, wasliterally accomplished in about twenty years after theytook possession of their goodly land. "But Jeshurunwaxed fat and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou artgrown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then heforsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed theRock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousywith strange gods; with abomiuations provoked they himto anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; togods whom they knew not, to newgods that came newlyup, whom our fathers (while in e wilderness) fearednot. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindfirl,and hast forgotten God that formed thee." The word