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make way for the Beast (this going before, as the twilight doth serve to usher in darkness) therefore the Holy Ghost thought them worthy of this character, (in this prophecy), and of a discovery of them unto whom they do belong; especially seeing they would so professedly deny it. And though haply but in one of the ten kingdoms (although the Lutherans elsewhere look very like this description also), yet seeing they were to grow so potent a faction as to have power to hinder the (buying and selling) quiet living of others amongst them, who will not receive this worship and doctrine (which is a new refined Popery), and with it the number of his name; that is, those opinions and practices which do deserve that esteem. And further, because they were to be the Pope's last champions before his fall, whom those that are the true Saints, (of whom the greatest number in the last age before the Pope's ruin, is in, or belonging to that of one kingdom) are to encounter and overcome, before the ruin of Rome; therefore the Holy Ghost thought not fit to leave such a company out of the Beast's number and followers; and that also, although they were to continue but a short time; for the doom of these men we have in another prophecy, (as their description also), 2 Tim. iii., from the 1st verse to the 10th, the prophecy there being of a generation of men to arise in the last days (the Papists' rising is attributed to the latter days, in 1 Tim. chap. iv., but the rise of these to the last of the last days), who shall set themselves principally against the power and spirit of true worship, and set up a form or image instead of it, verse 5; but their doom is (verse 9), These shall proceed no further, they shall have a stop; and their folly and madness, and hypocrisy (to attempt to bring in Popery with denying it, and when it is going down, then to build this Babel again) shall appear to all men; and being discovered, will be their overthrow but notwithstanding they must proceed further than as yet they have done, even to the killing of the witnesses in that kindom, or tenth part of the city (as chap. 11 will show, when in its due order it shall be opened). And because these last champions of the

Beast, and healers of the wound given him, should come in the last days of all, they are therefore last named, and are said to be last overcome by the witnesses and pourers forth of the vials, as chap xv. ver. 2."

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

"TRACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.-A Course of Lectures on the General Coincidence of the Peculiar Doctrines of the Tractarians with those of the Church of Rome. By the Rev. M. W. Foye, M.A., Curate of the Parish of St. Martin, Birmingham." L. and G. Seeley. p. 216.

We do not know when we have been more pleased than while reading this masterly exposure of that unprincipled heresy-Tractarianism. It should be circulated far and wide.

"A CHARGE delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Llandaff, at the Triennial Visitation, in October, 1842. By Edward, Lord Bishop of Llandaff." J. F. G. and J. Ruston. p. 39.

Most admirable. O si sic omnes.

"THE IMPOSTORS DETECTED, or a very Necessary Warning to all True and Faithful Followers of the LORD, as Protestant Churchmen or Dissenters, in a Conversation between George Steadfast and William Little-Care, on an occurrence which lately took place in this town. By the Author of the Derby Tracts.' " Hamilton and Co., London. Rowbottom, Derby. p. 14.