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Kitchens; "it is Antichrist." "You can't bear the sight of it, I suspect, Dr. Kitchens?" "I can't endure it, sir; what true Protestant can?" "Then look here," said Charles, taking a small crucifix out of his writing-desk; and he held it before Dr. Kitchens' face. Dr. Kitchens at once started on his feet, and retreated.
While they were thus communing together, they came in sight of the city, with its coronal of golden spires, and Babylonian pride of idolatrous towers, and they halted for a moment to contemplate the gorgeous insolence with which Antichrist had there built up and invested the blood-stained throne of his blasphemous usurpation.
Though we are to acknowledge with thankfulness that this opposition lies not so much in fundamentals as in things of a lesser import. The godly all hold the head, for there Antichrist could never divide them; their divisions therefore are, as I said, only about smaller things.
He pointed out that Cardinal Newman interpreted the words, I will lay thy stones with fair colours and thy foundations with sapphires, as authorizing "the sumptuosities of the Church of Rome"; and to Protestants who said that this was a wrong use of the passage he pointed out that their similar use of the Beast and the Scarlet Woman and Antichrist would seem equally wrong to Cardinal Newman; "and in these cases of application who shall decide"? What he insisted on was the value of the Bible as a beautiful and ennobling literature, easily accessible to all.
O that men would rely upon the righteousness of Christ stimulating them to run for glory, as heavenly footmen, and not upon the nostrums of Antichrist! Ed. Such was and IS Popery!! But at the end of all this promised pardon for a million of years what then? Will eternal torments commence? Ed.
If you object, that my principles lead me to have communion with all; I answer with all as afore described; if they will have communion with me. Object. Then you may have communion with the members of antichrist. Ans. If there be a visible saint yet remaining in that church; let him come to us, and we will have communion with him. Quest.
Again, both in the north and south there is still a strong ecclesiastical spirit in the people, and the Pomeranian sees Antichrist in the Pope as clearly as the Tyrolese sees him in Doctor Luther; while in Middle Germany the confessions are mingled, they exist peaceably side by side in very narrow space, and tolerance or indifference has spread itself widely even in the popular mind.
O what acclamations of joy will there be, when all the children of God meet together, without the fear of being disturbed by Antichrist! How will the heavens echo of joy, when the Bride, the Lamb's wife, shall come to dwell with her Husband! If you would be better satisfied what the beatific vision means, my request is, that you would live holily, and thus go and see.
And this text I the rather bring, because 'tis to be the portion of Antichrist. And therefore let this be a caution to the men that wonder after the beast, to caution them to repentance, for he will assuredly go into perdition. What! shall the witnesses of God be killed! Shall the beast stand glorying over them while they are dead, with his feet in their neck? and shall none be angry at it?
As if he had said, Brethren, as eternal life is laid up for the persons that hold out only, so you cannot hold out unless you continue praying in the Spirit. The great cheat that the devil and antichrist delude the world withal, it is to make them continue in the form of any duty, the form of preaching, of hearing, or praying, &c. Here followeth the third thing; to wit,
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