The Rise, Progress and Downfall of Aristocracy: Taken from Ancient and Modern History, Sacred and Profane; Together with a Comment on the Two Witnesses (Rev. XI) the Three "Unclean Spirits Like Frogs, which Go Forth to the King of the Earth ... "the Great Earthquake which Will Convulse the World ... and the Certain Deliverence of the Family of Man from the Cruel Oppression and Misrule of Kings-craft, Priest Craft and Aristocracy ... |
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The almost universal inattention and apathy of the world of mankind to these most interesting topics , is to me at least , a plain proof of the truth of the prophecy of him who is emphatically Truth itself . Matt . xxiv , 44.
The almost universal inattention and apathy of the world of mankind to these most interesting topics , is to me at least , a plain proof of the truth of the prophecy of him who is emphatically Truth itself . Matt . xxiv , 44.
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We must have false proplets and corrupt priests , and we must have kings and standing armies , our priests and prophets will teach the divine right of kings , and if the people should prove too refractory , the sword will teach them .
We must have false proplets and corrupt priests , and we must have kings and standing armies , our priests and prophets will teach the divine right of kings , and if the people should prove too refractory , the sword will teach them .
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Behold the treatment of Lot in Sodom , of Daniel and the the children in Babylon , of Mor . daica , also ; of Socrates in Greece , of Cicero in Rome . Of all the holy apostles and prophets . But the climax of all the aristocratic ...
Behold the treatment of Lot in Sodom , of Daniel and the the children in Babylon , of Mor . daica , also ; of Socrates in Greece , of Cicero in Rome . Of all the holy apostles and prophets . But the climax of all the aristocratic ...
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... and destruction on their own nation ( as we read in the celebrated Josephus , their own historian , ) and was the direct and literal sulfilment of the prophecy of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Chirst , some forty years before .
... and destruction on their own nation ( as we read in the celebrated Josephus , their own historian , ) and was the direct and literal sulfilment of the prophecy of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Chirst , some forty years before .
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But their government may well be called the defender of the faith of Antichrist , of the False Prophet , and of Deelzebub , the main pillar of the spiritual Babylon , the very citadel of the spiritual Sodom and Egypt .
But their government may well be called the defender of the faith of Antichrist , of the False Prophet , and of Deelzebub , the main pillar of the spiritual Babylon , the very citadel of the spiritual Sodom and Egypt .
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Page 150 - After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands ; And cried with a loud voice; saying; Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Page 149 - And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Page 154 - And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea ; and the third part of the sea became blood : 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died ; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Page 138 - And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Page 173 - And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
Page 139 - And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws : and they shall be given into his hand, until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Page 102 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.
Page 110 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth ; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 172 - And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood : which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Page 154 - The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth : and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
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| Title | The Rise, Progress and Downfall of Aristocracy: Taken from Ancient and Modern History, Sacred and Profane; Together with a Comment on the Two Witnesses (Rev. XI) the Three "Unclean Spirits Like Frogs, which Go Forth to the King of the Earth ... "the Great Earthquake which Will Convulse the World ... |
| Author | William Mathers |
| Publisher | The author, 1831 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 200 pages |
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