Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1784. Excerpt: ... tion toward the maintenance of her power and opulence, and some of whose monarchs have been numbered among the most obedient of her sons, hath not only long rent itself from her dominion, but sent forth a constant supply of powerful opponents, to combat her groundless pretences, expose her usurpations, lessen her influence, and diminish her ill-gotten and muchabused authority; Often hath he, who is favoured with the title of her Eldest Son, mocked at her representatives commands, and even made him tremble on his throne; while the monarchs on whom have been bestowed the epithets Most Faithful, Most Catholic, and Most Apostolic, and whose predecessors have so oft imbrued their hands in blood for the support of her authority, have of late become destroyers of the firmest props of her power, and thus far proceeded (in accomplishment of the prediction) to make her desolate and naked. The execution of the remaining and much severer parts of her sentence, continues among the yet future signs of the approach of the visible establishment of the kingdom of God; while those which we see already inflicted, afford us so many warnings to expect those which are yet to come, and to preserve ourselves from partaking of her sins, least we be involved likewise in her punishment. The same may be observed on the other signs which have appeared: Thus the prevalence of irreligion and immorality immorality, should in all reason admonish every man to look to himself, that he be not led td contribute to the hastening of that day, when men shall be blind to the truths of religion, and have forgotten all its precepts; when darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: Thus too we may, from the calamities with which the earth is already visited, from the wars, insurr...
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