Second advent library

B2chants cf the earth are waxed rich -through thecabundance of her delicacies.The expression "-Mr" in this text, mustmeanBabylon; and it lmnstmesnmone thanthe nominal Church of Rome: for allmenare not the visible members of her communion.Yet all nations have committed forni~cation with her, and will drink of the wrathof God, which he will pour out upon herand them. Babylon, then, must mean Churchand State, and to unite them is fomimtion.Vesting the supreme power in both of theseis Babylon, or confusion ; for God has severedthem, and says, My kingdom is not of thisworld. Then, when the church of Rome,orany other church or body of Christians,seek for and obtain the honors and emolumentsof the political 'powers of the earth,they commit foruication with the nations andkings or kingdoms, as the case may be; andthe :kings or rulers of the Satanic kingdoms,when they seek to be defenders ofthe faithof the saints, and tyrannize over the mindsand consciences of msn, also, commitforuication with her; and both_ together forman alliance unnatural,and are Babylon ilIll8l'robes of blood. All wicked, selfish anddeigning demagogues, bigots and sectarian-leaders among men, are evidently intoxicatedor drunken after or for this power of civil