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Rh above the sphere of their comprehension. These, and manv other such consequent notions, are contained in the predominant faith, that nature is the creator of the universe, and they issue from it, as soon as ever it is opened to give them vent. This example then may serve to shew, that in the faith of the present church, which in its internal form is directed towards three Gods, but in its external towards one, there are contained legions of falsities, ready to burst into birth, like so many young spiders from the womb of a single mother. How plain must this appear to those whose minds have acquired true rationality by light from the Lord! but how dark and unintelligible to those, who have barred up the door to that faith, and its consequences, by a persuasion that it is not allowable for reason to look into its mysteries!

It is written in Daniel, And for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate, Dan. ix. 27. the Lord saith, Many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many; when therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place, whoso readeth let him understand, Matt. xxiv. 11, 15, and afterwards in the same chapter, Then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be, ver. 21. This affliction and abomination are spoken of in seven chapters of the, and are signified by the black horse, and the pale horse, coming out of the book whose seals the lamb