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Tongue of Italy, or the GREEK original. Behold, then, the self-infatuation of the Man of Sin," "the Son of Perdition!" Behold with Astonishment the Mystery of Iniquity!" who can unravel the Mystery of the "MAN?" Why, his own LATIN SPEECH, by self-adoption and infatuated appropriation, "bewrayeth HIM," that HE is the MAN, even the LATIN BISHOP of ROME: HE, The MAN, whose descriptive MARK," Appellative "NAME," and enigmatical" Number," are all LATIN; (to wit LATEINOS). Thus has he locked up the HOLY SCRIPTURES in the LATIN (unknown, or unspoken) Tongue, authorizing it to be the Living Vernacular Tongue of his Latin, Papal, Roman Church and Kingdom. Wherefore, we have an indisputable Right to designate him by that Proper and Appellative Name, (Lateinos,) which he alloweth to be Ecclesiastically and Canonically true, as his Council of Trent witnesseth. Or why doth the Pope so scrupulously adhere to the Latin dead Language, seeing that it has not been spoken in all Europe for Centuries past? And here I would by the way remark that the sense in which, during the times of Ancient Rome its Pagan Rulers were termed LATIN EMPERORS, may fairly apply, with an improved significancy to the Sovereign Pontiffs of the Ecclesiastical Roman Empire; for the EMPERORS of Rомв spake LATIN as their native Language, but the Popes, centuries after it has ceased to be spoken either in ITALY or EUROPE, have commanded ALL PAPISTS to have the formularies of their Church Service in none other

Language than LATIN, throughout the world, therefore, the PAPISTS are, to all intents and purposes, LATINS by self-appropriation, and are living witnesses to the Mysterious Fact.

As the NEW TESTAMENT of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was originally written in GREEK, (and not in Latin,) what Scriptural Argument of Commandment can be advanced by this Mystical, Latin, Pontificial, Roman MAN, and that of his Councils, for the promulgation of the Holy Scriptures throughout the world in the LATIN Language? Is it not in truth permitted by Providence, that by this SPECIAL, this adopted, this branded LATIN "MARK" of Mystical and Ecclesiastical Distinction, this selfappropriated LATIN Language, Christians might be able, after the full Revelation and Establishment of the Popedom, to trace the "Man of Sin," the "Son of Perdition" the "Mystery of Iniquity," to ROME? and thence propound from the Volume of Inspiration, as compared with the clearest historical Facts, that from the aggregate Evidence of his Mystical Character, and most Mystical use of the LATIN Tongue in the ROMAN CHURCH, HE might merit the Proper and Appellative Name LATEINOS, as the Founder of a NEW KINGDOM on the Ruins of old Rome, and as reviving the old Latin Language, and using the Papal Cæsarean Title of " PONTIFEX MAXIMUS" which is engraven on his MITRE and TRIPLE CROWN, as also the introduction of various Pagan Customs and Ceremonies into his Roman Basilique. Plain then indeed, is the Evidence that

to the Roman or Latin Pontiff, whose entire Ecclesiastical Language is LATIN, this Latin imprinted "MARK," "NAME, and NUMBER 666 belong, because it is a Name most descriptive of his character, Sovereign Pontificial Empire, and LATIN Apostate (not Apostolic) Church of Rome.

If ANTIQUITY be any thing, (and this Point the Roman Catholics esteem of special importance,) if the Holy Scriptures must of Imperative Necessity be promulgated in some ONE Particular Language, then of course the GREEK ORIGINAL would take precedence of the LATIN Vulgate, which latter is only a Translation, as the Romanists well know. Moreover, no Scriptural argument can be adduced by the Pope and his College of Cardinals, why the Holy Scriptures should be circulated through the whole world in the LATIN Language, rather than the Greek original: for neither Christ, the Evangelists, nor any of the inspired Apostles, have left us any such commandment in the Gospel, and the Latin Language has not been spoken by any one Nation, Kingdom, or People, in any City, or Town, or Province in all Europe for centuries past, no, not even in Italy, Latium, or ROME, the SEAT of the Roman or Latin' Pontifex Maximus.' Wherefore, as notwithstanding the LATIN has been adopted and canonized by the Popish Councils for the sole uses of the Roman Church, and is the Living Universal Language of that Church among all the Nations of Europe at this hour; so she bears, as a Stigma incurred by such adoption and canonization, the

LATIN NAME branded upon her CHURCH and KINGDOM, and it will anathematize Her to all future generations. For though she has the consummate impudence and affrontery to style Herself κατ' ἐξοχὴν, and exclusively, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, yet is she not Catholic in any other sense than from the Catholic use of the Latin Language throughout her Latin Communion.

What, I would ask, becomes of the great intent of the Pentecostal gift of Tongues-viz. That 1" EVERY MAN might hear in his own Tongue or Language, wherein he was born, the wonderful works of God;" if the Holy Scriptures were intended to be locked up, and exclusively circulated in the Latin Tongue? Where, then, is the obedience of this Latin Church of Rome and its members to the emphatical injunction of our Lord, 2" Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of ME?" How in the breast of à Roman Catholic, can that noble spirit, which characterized the Bereans, expand and grow? Of whom we read, that they 3 were "more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they "searched the Scriptures daily?"

1 Acts ii. 7-11.

2 John v. 39.

3 Acts xvii. 11.

CHAPTER XVII.

THE GENERAL ARGUMENT FOR THE NAME Λατινος AS DEFINITIVELY AND EXCLUSIVELY DESCRIPTIVE

OF THE "MAN OF SIN," FURTHER CONFIRMED.

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ST. PAUL'S observations relative to speaking in an "unknown Tongue "" in the Church" are worthy of especial notice, inasmuch as they summarily and beyond appeal condemn the Opinions and Decisions of the Papal Council of Trent, and pronounce the Doom of such an Heretical Council. "I thank God," said St. Paul, "I speak with TONGUES more than ye all: yet IN THE CHURCH I had rather speak FIVE WORDS with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an UNKNOWN TONGUE.' What, however, is the LATIN, but an "UNKNOWN TONGUE " in every part of Europe, and even in ROME itself?

It is well worthy of remark that although there are millions of individuals belonging to each of the

11 Cor. xiv. 18, 19.