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interest, and so irresistible, that we can scarcely prevail upon ourselves 

 to stop short ; and, therefore, we determine to give this essay — so admirable 

 and so well propounded — entire. The learned doctor continues : — 



"Thus have we considered some of the chief ingredients of that en- 

 chanting ' cup full of abominations,' with which the mighty sorceress 

 of Rome deceives her unhappy adherents, and which accounts, indeed, 

 but too well for that spiritual blindness and peculiar profligacy, which 

 ran, like a wide and deep contagion, through popish countries. Yet all 

 this is but a part of her wickedness ; for, while she makes the inhabi- 

 tants of the earth drunk ' with the wine of her fornication, she herself 

 is drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs 

 of Jesus ;' or, as it is expressed in our text — ' In her was found the 

 blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that were slain on the earth ;' 

 which was the second point we proposed to view very briefly. Now, 

 it is certain that this sanguinary prostitute, not contented with ruining 

 the souls of those who are seduced by her, has often thirsted to murder 

 the bodies of those who are not. I speak to facts, and say that, armed 

 with bulls in one hand, and faggots in the other, provided with frightful 

 apparatus of axes, racks, and gibbets, and accompanied v/ith an hideous 

 train of holy executioners, she has frequently gone forth to make war 

 with the saints and to wear them out ; pretending, all the while, that 

 she went forth in the name and cause of the Prince of Peace and Saviour 

 of men, in the name and cause of Him who, as we observed before, des- 

 cended from the bosom, aud appeared on the behalf of the God of Peace 

 and the Parent of mankind, to defend and enlarge the kingdom of 

 righteousness and peace. Satan, the adversary of God and man, 

 having, as was already hinted, laid the foundation of an opposite king- 

 dom, subversive to those best interests, he labours to support and extend 

 it, not only in person, but by his agents on earth and in hell ; — of all 

 his agents on earth, we contend that the dreadful power we are des- 

 cribing is the most assiduous and the most successful. We contend 

 that, in managing this work, she sustains, like her master, a double 

 character, — that of deceiver and murderess. The first, if I am not mis- 

 taken, we have fairly proved ; for the second, we appeal to all history, 

 and here we are encompassed with a cloud of witnesses. Mysterious 

 Heaven ! what a spectacle do I behold ! — Methink I see the souls of 

 those that have been slain by that sanctified destroyer for the testimony 

 of Jesus, and slain under the pretence of zeal for his amiable name ; I see 

 them rising up in millions, and hear them crying out with a voice that 

 shakes the pillars of heaven, — " How long, oh Lord, holy and true, 

 dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the 

 earth," and on that blood-thirsty city ? Let impartial history recount, 

 if she can recount, the number of God's creatures that have been mur- 

 dered in God's name by that blood-thirsty impostor. Let history tell of 

 the carnage committed in the many holy wars — the holy wars under- 

 taken for the extirpation of the infidels ! 



" Let her tell of the cruel proceedings against the Protestants in Hun- 

 gary, in France, in Flanders, in Germany, in Bohemia, in the Palatinate, 

 and many other parts. Let her tell of the fires in Smithffeld, par- 

 ticularly in the reign of Mary, of England ; of the Armada, in Spain, 

 in the reign of Elizabeth ; of the Gunpowder Plot, in (he reign of 



