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.cnars'r's ueosn course. UIchurch. 33, "And they that understand among thepeople shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by thesword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil manydays." Those who instructed the common andopposed people,the worshipping of images, the infalli ilityofthe Pope and councils, the canonizing of departed saints,were rsecuted by the civil power, (the sword,)burnedxliy wereorder of the ecclesiastical courts establishedby the laws of Justinian, emperor of Constantinople,whose code of laws, published about A. D. 534, gaveunto the bishop of Rome power to establish courts for thispurpose, and many in the sixth century and subsequent(period, "many days," suffered death, im-down to a lateanprisonment, confiscation of goods, inof a, difference of opinion consectuencein matters of religion,y thetyranny of this abomination, "the bloody city whic hasreigned over the kings of the earth." 34, "Now, whenthey shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help;but many shall cleave to them with ilatteries." Thistext"And theshall cleave toagrees with one in Revelation xii. 16,earth elped the woman." "But manythem ;" that is, manymen of the world would cleave tothem, and professed y would flatter the true people ofGod that they were friendly at least to them,these means Satan carried on his warsandhlzlyagainst the `c -dren of God. 35, " And some of them o understandingshall fall, to try them, and to pur e and to make themwhite, emi even to the time ot' the because it is yet fora time appointed." This verse shows us that even Christianswould be led into some of the errors of Papacy,and would be tried and purged,even to the end of thisimage beast's reign, which time is asappointed, I havealready shown, to e " time, times, and a halfi" |260 years,ending A. D. 1798. 36, "And the king shall do accord~ing to his will ; and he shall exalt himself andmsqnifyhimself above every god, and shall eak marve lousthings against the God of gods, and shash prospertill thebe accomplished, for that that is determinediaigfnauon be done." The ki here spoken of is the someis Daniel's little horn, hiich *came up among the teaburns. 'It itthat blasphemed the God ofth; same