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the Papal dominion Popery was masculine. The title of a Papal king was "His Holiness." And in Scripture, speaking of the Papal Beast, in Rev. xiii. 11, and on, John said “He had two horns like a lamb; and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven in the sight of men." All the above personal pronouns, it may be seen, are masculine.

But, as supreme head of the Church, in the exercise of sovereign despotic tyranny over the consciences of mankind, Papal Rome, under the appellation of Popedom, is represented in sex, by various feminine designations, viz., "The great whore that sitteth upon many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored beast, —and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold, and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand. And upon her forehead was a name written,-" The Mother of Harlots.' And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of saints." Such are the Scriptural emblems of feminine Popery. And such an unclean spirit like a frog, combining two forms of government and two sexes, must be well qualified to act any part assigned to it by INFIDELITY, the Chieftain of the forces of Antichrist in a war with Almighty God.

No wonder, then, that the Infidel power of the 18th century, having himself just emerged from the bottomless pit, from the very mouth of the dragon; after having recovered from a wound on the head, which prostrated him in apparent death, where he lay

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stiff, and cold, during a period of more than 1450 years, and now, in A.D. 1789, having been resuscitated to life by the power of Philosophical ILLUMINISM; feeling himself perfectly healed from the deadly wound, and having magnified himself to the superlative honor of Commander in Chief of all the combined Powers of Antichrist; no wonder, indeed, after such adverse and revertible revolutions, that the Infidel, self-exalted Generalissimo should have condescended to take the "Mother of Harlots" on his back, as a Confederate, (she being "the weaker vessel,” and crippled withal,) and thus aid her along, and receive her reciprocal aid, and the accommodating help of her amiable, innumerable, and “Infallible" Harlot daughters, in the important preparations which are in contemplation for the battle of the great day of God Almighty. In this plight the Infidel Beast from the bottomless pit, the unclean spirit from the mouth of the dragon, was seen in the prophetic vision of John the Revelator, with Popery on his back, marching to the decisive battleground, at which period Popery became identified with Infidelity; and after this, the Beast which carries her only is named, as including both Infidelity and Popery in Alliance, (a circumstance worthy of special notice,) which may be seen in the prophetic result of the great battle. [Rev. xvii anď xix.]

The LAST One of the unclean spirits like frogs, was seen to come out of the mouth of the false prophet.

Who among all the fallen race of Adam can be meant by the "False Prophet," if Mahomet was not the man? He who magnified himself above all the prophets of the Old and New Testaments, and even above the Lord Jesus Christ, the DIVINE SAVIOUR Of the world; he who has deceived millions and generations of mankind by his false pretences of receiving

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special communications from God; by the false doctrines of his fabulous and fictitious Koran-bible, in which no doctrine of a Saviour of lost men could be found; by his false system of religion which was built up with blood, by the power of the sword and the carnage of slaughtered millions; by his false heaven of fabled happiness in an endless licentious paradise for Mahometans only, and perdition to all the rest of mankind; he who compelled millions to worship himself as God's only vicegerent on earth, and left a code of laws to bind generations of mankind to believe, and teach their children to believe, that "There is no God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet?" Surely, the human being who could devise and propagate all this system of falsity, and thus "stand up against the PRINCE of princes," to the destruction of himself and of millions of lost souls, must be, emphatically, the false prophet of the apocalyptical prediction, and of the historical fulfilment.

Hence the unclean spirit which came out of the mouth of Mahomet the false prophet, was evidently the false, fabulous, soul-destroying system of Mahometanism which still exists; which is one of the three predominant powers of Antichrist; and which completes the "devil's trio," (three in one,) under the appellations of Infidelity, Popery, and Mahometanism. These were emblematically seen, in prophetic vision, to come out of the mouths of the Dragon, Beast, and False Prophet, as confederate powers of Antichrist, of whom it is prophetically declared, that "They are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty."

The vision of the three unclean spirits like frogs,

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stands connected with the pouring of the sixth vial, the fulfilment of which, it is believed, commenced at the rise of the last great Infidel power above described; and is now in progress of fulfilling, and will continue to be fulfilling, until the issue of the contest on the battle-day referred to in the prediction.

The preparation for that contest is complicated, and important to be considered. The amount of the whole preparation is to levy troops, to raise an army, and gather the forces of this world together, till "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us." The design of this array is to combine the inhabitants of this earth, collectively, equipped in arms of carnal policy; with hearts fired with enmity; eyes full of adultery; hands ready to work every abomination with violence; their feet eager to run into all evil, hastening to shed innocent blood; and their thoughts full of hatred and opposition to the God of heaven, to the Holy Bible, to the laws and religion which the Bible inculcates; and to all who profess love to the Triune Jehovah, and the orthodox unperverted doctrines of the revelation of His eternal TRUTH.

For this purpose, and to accomplish this object, Infidelity, Popery, and Mahometanism, are now virtually combined and engaged to the same degree that exertions are made by them to propagate their respective systems of anti-Christian usurpations, blasphemies, unhallowed and unmeaning ceremonies, fabulous doctrines and practical abominations, to poison the fountains of education, to fill the world with soul-destructive errors, and to render the Holy Bible, the God of the Bible, and the orthodox religion of the Bible so

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contemptible in the eyes of mankind, that the general voice shall be," Away with them." We will not have this God to reign over us; nor his word to instruct us; nor his counsel to guide us; nor any of his laws to bind us; nor his religion to save us; neither do we wish for the enjoyment of his heaven; nor do we fear the threatenings and terrors of his hell! For, who is the Lord, that we should serve him, or what profit should we have if we pray unto him? All our wishes will be answered if he will forever "Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of his ways!!!"

In this work of anti-Christian enterprise, the Infidel power, although last in organization, is evidently first in sagacity, authority, influence and exertion, to devise measures and carry them out, in preparation for the overthrow of Christianity. This fact is, doubtless, a fulfilment of the prophecy of Ezekiel, made almost 600 years before Christ, in which the prophet was inspired to foretell the existence of a combination of earthly powers against God and his people in the latter ages of the world, under the symbolical representation of Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and "his bands," which were almost as extensive as the boundaries of earth, all in battle array for the overthrow of God's people of Israel, which they were not able to accomplish. [See Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39.]

Evidently, in fulfilment of that prophecy, Infidelity, the Gog, the Generalissimo, at the head, as leader of all the combined powers of Antichrist, "his bands,” comprising the legions of theoretical and practical Atheists, are constantly engaged in extending their instructions and influence "To the kings of the earth and to the whole world," to muster forces, to secure allies, and make all possible preparation to destroy the

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