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Fourthly, the unity of the body of Christ, as gathered by the presence of the Holy Ghost in this present time of the Church on earth was undermined and subverted too.

Fifthly, the Deification of the saints, that is “Omniscient power of superintendance, “Omnipotent power necessary to such execution.” And, referring to Ezekiel’s vision but as a description of the power of the cherubim who symbolize the redeemed, “no where absent but everywhere present in the perfectness of undivided action,” and they “will apply to the earth, the wisdom of the elders, and the throne.”

And as a sixth point, the constant extenuation of the evil of Popery. And the decided absence of Christ from the teaching while the saints were exalted “almost into co-equality with God.”

I may add as a seventh the exaltation and beauty of a personal Antichrist in a way quite contrary to Scripture, so as to alarm and shake the minds of the saints. As to principles and practice, I do not go over again the statements made in the preceding pages; statements more than confirmed by incidents arising from day to day which it is impossible to reduce to writing.

I have now sufficiently given the history of what has passed, as far as I have been concerned in it. Others must give what has passed behind the scenes. As I have