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will break " the hammer of the whole earth ! 

 When the Alvas and the Dominicks, the Bonners, 

 the Gardiners ; with all the host of sanguinary 

 tyrants who have trafficked in the souls of men, 

 shall receive at the Lord's hand the cup of retribu 

 tion, and perish, with that desperate delusion, that 

 offspring of Satan, which the Holy Ghost had 

 denounced as the mother of abominations — the 

 woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and 

 with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus ! This 

 is not the language of uncharitableness — no : the 

 farthest possible from true charity is that ungodly 

 liberalism which will close its eyes to the plainest 

 declarations of holy writ, and leave men's souls to 

 perish, rather than shock their prejudices. God 

 will not alter the thing that is gone out of his lips; 

 and unless we can expunge from the thirteenth to 

 the twentieth chapter of Revelation, or close our 

 eyes to the clear and indubitable exposition which 

 history supplies, of its actual reference to the pa- 

 pacy, we stand guilty of wilful mutilation of God's 

 word, while withholding those awful appeals from 

 our deluded fellow-creatures of the Romish per- 

 suasion, and neglecting to address to them the 

 warning cry, " Come out of her, my people : be 

 ye not partakers of her sins, that ye receive not 

 of her plagues." 



