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it is to get money, to rob countries, that they may make their nests
on high. And indeed they have done it, to the amazement of all the
world. They are clambered up above kings and princes and emperors;
they wear the triple crown; they have made kings bow at their feet,
and emperors stand barefoot at their gates; they have kicked the
crowns of princes from their heads, and set them on again with their
toes. Thus their covetousness hath set them on high, even above the
suns, moons, and stars of this world: but to what end? that they may
be cast down to hell.
Antichrist must be destroyed, because he stands in the way of the
setting up of the kingdom of Christ in the world. Many princes were
in Edom before there was a king in Israel; and Christ has suffered
antichrist to set up before him; and he stands in Christ's way, and
has so overspread the world in all places with that which is
directly contrary to him, that he cannot set up his kingdom until
that which is antichrist's is tumbled down to the ground. Even as a
man whose ground is full of thorns and briars and weeds, cannot sow
in expectation of a crop, until he hath removed them. And these
seeds has antichrist sown where the kingdom of Christ should stand.
When God came from Egypt with his people to set up his kingdom in
Canaan, he cast out the heathen before them, in order thereunto:
"Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the
heathen and planted it.
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