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( 10 ) more proud, ignorant, lifeless, and sensual, which being contrary to christianity, cannot miss to bring down any fabric raised to support it. Besides, many of the great and leading men in the nation look upon religion as nothing, only as far as subservient to civil interest; and are beginning to think the burden of supporting these cities of the nations far greater than all the benefit they produce to society. So they, viz. the established churches, I mean so far as relates to temporals, are more supported by the views of rulers than the rules of Christ. Whenever they see their infignificancy and forsake them, then they must fall, while the true church of Christ shall stand firm on himself, as its infallible rock; this is the holy city, the new Jerusalem, which shall more clearly appear, when the cities of the nations are fallen, as they did before they were built; and, though I believe many citizens of the new Jerusalem hath dwelt in established churches, those cities of the nations, and been employed and privileged by them, yet they found many embarrassments to please the King of Zion, and the kings of the nations; they saw how