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    fyylon , the seat of Antichrist ^ possesses a degree of ubiquity * Babylon is the seat of Antichrist , and Antichrist is he , or the ^ who oppose the laws of Christ . Antichrist is rather a great community than a great city : even the streets of this city may be equal to some of the kingdoms of the world ; its senators may be sovereigns / and its merchants princes * the optima tes 9 the \ yv 7 topo % t 5 } s- yr ^ s ( Apoc . xviii , 3 » 11 * 15 , ) and its river , or Euphrates , equal to the whole ocean ? It is therefore an instance of considerable short-sightedness to fix the odium that may have belonged to so vast a power

    as this , upon the inhabitants of any city , or any religion , ever * the Roman Catholic , which has derived its name from a city * It has been the policy , the government , and not merely the religion of Rome , that has formed the Antichristian part of it : Home has been truly Antichristian , but she is not j ^ ntichrist : so every Christian must partake of the nature of Christ ; but

    every Christian is not a Christ . Christian chanty teaches us tQ bear with Roman Catholics as individuals , and to honor tfem as believers , differing in their mode of faith , because as such we find . their moral conduct varying to good and evil , like that of other men ; but if ever Roman Catholics should again be united in a powerful community , where the persecution of others is adopted as a principle , then it becomes a part of Christiaft prudence , while we pity the perpetrator , to execrate the prac tiee , and guard against its effects by all lawful means . If tfee Roman Catholic religion considered in itself , and divested of its accustomed politics , had been so banefulty Antichristian as the common run of bible-expositors have imagined , the ever * memorable Dr . Priestley would never have contended for the

    Roman Catholic ' s privilege of educating his own children at one of his natural rights ! In fact , if \\ e wish to witness the decay of the Roman Catholic reli gion , as well as its politics , which have been radically changed by the French Revolution * let us betray na anxiety , no uneasiness at its toleration . If ^ however , we are inclined to combat its principle ? ,, let it be

    doi > e with temper , and the utmost eare m shunning any thing that may bear the least appearance of personality * la tact , if we labour to establish a good practice , first in ourselves , and secondly in others , it is more than a hundred to one but good principles follow of course . Besides , though ignorance has been the mother of devotion in the old apostate church , under

    the crqoked policy and alliance of ecclesiastical and secular Koine . , the more grand and simple doctrine of the one God 9 and one Lord Jesus Christ , supported , by th « progress of human knowledge , containan host in themselves . So great is the po \ jrer of truth , that spnietimes only a single ray flashing in the fac 6 of error will reflect it * rpctpstrosity , make it start appakd

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/28/