You therefore WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE. You also RECEIVE HIS MARK, HIS NAME, HIS NUMBER, AND THE MARK OF HIS NAME. And how awful will be your condemnation, if you wilfully persist in your errors! That very Church to which you belong, which professes to be the only true Church, out of which there is no salvation, has the Mark, Name, and Number of the BEAST; for its Name is רומיי+ The If any man have an ear, let him hear." If you would make your salvation sure, come out from this Apostate Church, and take the Bible for your guide! Come out from her and be separate ! If you continue in her you will be partakers of her plagues! word of the living God has said, IF ANY MAN WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVE HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD, OR IN HIS HAND, THE SAME SHALL DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH IS POURED OUT WITHOUT MIXTURE INTO THE CUP OF HIS INDIGNATION; AND HE SHALL your enemy, because I tell you the truth! Remember it was SATAN who said to our first parents, YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE. May God, of his infinite mercy, cause your delusions to vanish! II. ADDRESS TO PROTESTANTS. By the mercy of God you have escaped from the errors of Popery. "Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free; and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (Gal. v. 1.) Beware of that rock against which the Church of Rome has stricken and made shipwreck, the doctrine of JUSTIFICATION BY Works. Hold fast the fundamental doctrine of Protestantism, the doctrine of JUSTIFICATION BY FATH ONLY. As long as the Church of Rome held this doctrine, she stood; in renouncing it she fell. In opposition to the Church of Rome, the Church of England maintains, that this ' is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort;' that it is the doctrine which the Holy Scripture teacheth; the strong rock and foundation of Christian religion; this doctrine all old and ancient authors of Christ's Church do approve; this doctrine advanceth and setteth forth the true glory of Christ, and beateth down the vain-glory of man; this, whosoever denieth, is not to be accounted for a Christian man, nor for a setter forth of Christ's glory; but for an adversary to Christ and his Gospel, and for a setter forth of men's vain-glory.' (Art. IX. and Homily on Salvation, by Archbishop Cranmer.) This language is sufficiently plain and cannot be mis "the understood. Let us cleave to this doctrine as strong rock and foundation of Christian religion;" remembering the solemn language of St. Paul to those amongst the Galatians who apostatized from it, "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law: ye are fallen from grace." (Gal. v. 4.) Let us act up to our character as PROTESTANTS by PROTESTING with an unflinching PROTEST against the errors of Popery. Let the trumpet give no uncertain sound. Let us show to our deluded Roman Catholic brethren that their errors are damnable; that eternal misery will be the portion of those who " WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE." Let Protestant England be true to her profession. Let her have nothing to do with Popery-that accursed thing-that abominable thing which God hateth. Let her withdraw her grant of £3000. a-year to the support of the Popery of MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. Let her repeal the act of 1829, whereby she opened her Parliament to men, 66 who WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVE HIS MARK AND THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME.' For the language of Almighty God to England is, HER, COME OUT OF MY PEOPLE, THAT YE BE NOT PARTAKERS OF HER SINS, AND THAT YE RECEIVE NOT OF HER PLAGUES." (REV. XVIII. 4.) THE END. |