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( 7 ) key to Cape St. Vincent, and one may see them all joined less or more; but, even in the map, if France and French conquests, are cut out, the countries where popery is at present established will fall into three pieces, viz. Spain and Portugal on the west, Rome, Naples, and the States of Italy on the south, Germany, Hungary, and Poland on the north and east; this fulfils very evidently the first sentence of the 19th verse.

the next sentence, it is said, “and the cities of the nations fell; these cities of the nations, I take also to be churches, or what is called the established churches, one of these the most apparently agreeable to scripture of any other established church. In Europe it is already fallen, I mean in the presbyterian church in Holland; as I have always thought presbytery nearest to christian simplicity. In America, religious establishments are also abolished.

established church, in many circumstances and considerations, appears rather to be a city of the nations than the true