And how has this long ago been fulfilled here in England, as also in
Scotland, Holland, Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, and
other places. Nor has this spirit of antichrist, with all his art
and artifices, been able to reduce to antichrist again those people,
nations, or parts of nations, that by the Spirit of Christ's mouth
and the brightness of his coming have been made to forsake him, and
to turn from him to Christ.
The reason is, that the Lord has not retreated, but is still going
on in the Spirit of his mouth and in his brightness to make that
conquest over him that is determined, in the way that is determined;
for the pathway that he goeth is as the shining light which shines
more and more unto noon.
The first and chief proceeding of the Lord with the man of sin is to
slay his soul, that his body may also be consumed; and when the
spirit of antichrist shall be made to leave both the body and
ordinances of antichrist, it will be easy to deal both with the one
and the other.
And first, for the ordinances of antichrist, because the spirit of
error is in them as well as in the body itself. When that spirit has
left them, they will of themselves even moulder away and not be; as
we have seen by experience here in England, and as others also have
seen in other countries.
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