and declarations of Prophets, Apostles, and the God of the Scriptures :-They may be found to abound in the Sermon of Dedication of the Church of Saint Catherine! For For says the Bishop of the Consecration and in his qualification thereof;-notwithstanding the known desecration of Solomon's Temple, and the renouncement of Temple service since," This Church of St. Catherine, and others like it, are built for God's worship; for His worship amongst His chosen people! with a ministry of His appointing: (!) on a Plan of His own ordering; (!) as an instrument and token of His presence amongst those upon whom His name is called."!! And all this vain assumption, and these Egotistical assertions, in repugnance of the written 'Word and therefore in contempt of the known declarations, of both, the Old Scripture and the New Testament Authority.

Yet the Bishop proceeds, after forcing construction of the Apostles meeting in the upper chamber, to countenance the building of Churches; He strains the point also for the same purpose, in regard to the assembling and after the recommendation of Christ himself that," Where two or three were gathered together in His name, there was He in the midst of them." But mark the insinuating exposition of the Bishop, who writes and says, "That is, when they did thus come together in one Place, claiming their true corporate character, (!) and acting on their corporate rights, (!) that, then He was with them."

And he further adds," This was, this is, the glory of these Christian Temples, that He is with us of a truth." Whether forgetting the record that He is not, or, wilfully denying the testimony which God has given of Himself that," He dwelleth not in Temples made with hands," may be questioned?

Nevertheless there is one happy Idea expressed by the Bishop of two or three when they are gathered together in Christ's name,-" at the breaking of Bread an unearthly Presence would glide in amongst them, and He whom the World cannot receive, would manifest Himself to one and another amongst His waiting witnesses."

But still to prosecute and further the Erecting of Temples, and although it is known, and written that, even the beloved King David was not allowed to build One, because, he had shed Blood. Yet says

the Bishop," Mighty men and Kings built Temples where, with their poorest serfs, they might come and bow before the God of all." But where is the proof of acceptance?

The case is at issue now, in that, A great Warrior, in part Robber of a Kingdom in conjunction with Two of his Confederates; 'Mighty Men and Kings' have seized the whole Territory of a Nation; and to which Triumvirate, A SEA OF BLOOD lays at their doors to answer for Yet vainly, imagines the Third, that He shall be Assistant by his Money and by his AgentBishop to found and build a Temple to the God of Peace!!

And he has therefore sent his Bishop to be Canonized by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and confirmed by Administration of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Protestant Church! And subscription thereto by the Prussian Bishop, as the only admissible condition of his initiatory qualification!! and the indispensable and undisguised acknowledgment of the Thirty-Nine Articles, as the set and fixed Altar, from which he shall be allowed and permitted to Teach and Preach the Gospel of Christ !!! Had the Archbishop rather required proof of repentance of shedding Blood, of Murder, and of Theft! instead of Subscription and succumbing to the Articles, as the indispensable condition of Qualification of the Substitute and Representative of the King; it would have been abundantly more probable; if, that He-the King, by the deepest contrition for shedding the Blood of Man, should so have exonerated himself from the guilt and liability of being found One of the Four destroying Angels; and a Head, and One of the Powers of the Men Slayers, that," Neither repented they of their Murders, nor of their Sorceries, nor of their Fornication, nor of their Thefts."-Revelations ix. 14—21.

The Bishops who have before sent out their Missionary on such subscription qualification and conditions, have had as it may be apprehended and understood, that first, as an instance of failure; or of an abortive attempt to set and establish a Protestant Church at Jerusalem. Did the Bishops, the Bishop

of Oxford and his Confrees look for authority of the Temple-the acceptable Temple-the spiritual Temple which shall be built and set up; They might find it written and recorded by the Prophet, Zechariah,= "Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts, saying, Behold the Man whose name is THE BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his Place, and he shall Build the Temple of the LORD; Even he shall Build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his Throne: and he shall be a Priest his Throne and the Counsel of Peace shall be

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between them both."

But how can they understand, that labour under a spurious construction, and go out on a false interpretation,-like as Dr. Croly has shewn in respect to the Antichrist; and their having made the Prophecy to signify one Man! instead of a Body and a Constituency formed by Man, comprising a number;— For it is the Number by Man; and his Number is Six hundred, threescore and Six.-Rev. xiii. 18.

In regard to the Prophecy of Zechariah, and though he conveys the interpretation of the Branch, in unition with the Vine; yet, Expositors go out on their own, and self-made expositions; persisting that, by the Branch is defined and meant,-the Vine. Thus unheeding, and obstructing the authority of Him, who hath said,——“ I am the Vine, ye are the Branches."

The relation of the Vine, with the especial

Branch spoken of, is made clear by the explanation given by the Prophet, saying," The Counsel of Peace shall be between them both." Which undeniably refers to a distinct and distinguishable two Branch and Vine. Zechariah vi. 12—13.

The Crisis being come to prove, which shall prevail and be established, the Church Articles and Commandments devised by Man; or the divine Precepts of Christ ordained of GoD-they cannot stand together the Kingdom of God being come, the contest of Man against his Maker will be truly fearful, most awful, and most dreadful; but the Termination is, as unquestionable, as is the end inevitable.

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For ascertainment of a Protestant Church, and with a view of estimating its inward appearance and character, as denominated Christian,-The Bishop continues to state that formerly, They were adorned with all which gold and silver, and cunning art, could purchase or invent. And so long as this movement was indeed controlled by the higher law of separation from the world, all this was well, For the higher law would by no means admit into God's house all modes and forms of beauty.-If it was an earthly beauty, it was altogether out of place. If it was anything which could distract the Worshipper from Worship, which brought him back to the World, instead of helping him to mount up to the Unseen, beautiful as it might be in itself, there it was an offence, it was an Idol ?'