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exercise of creating power, a date so recent as six or seven thousand years ago." Very likely, Dr. Pye-this is in good keeping with all thy other notions. Good bye, sir! If it be worth saving, the Lord have mercy on thy soul! Amen.

SERMON VII.

II THESSALONIANS, II-3.

AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF Perdition.

READER: Though it be our principal object, in the ensuing discourse, to give a faithful exhibition of the character, works, and destiny of the "Man of Sin," so named by the Holy Ghost; and though we might proceed and execute our object, on the authority of the single clause which we have selected for our text; yet, from certain other relative considerations, we deem it proper and highly important, here to introduce the whole passage, with which it pleased the Holy Ghost to connect it, commencing with the first verse of the chapter in which it is contained.

"Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us; as that the Day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition: Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God, sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity

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doth already work: only he who now letteth, will let, until he, be taken out of the way.

"And then shall that Wicked, be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders; and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie; that they all might be damned, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

At such a time as the present, when efforts are making in almost every section of our country, by professed Catholics, and by some misguided high churchmen, in the Episcopal Church; to disseminate through their Oxford tracts, and through other mediums, the principles of the Roman Church, which is the thing called in our text, "The Man of Sin," to decry and misrepresent that blessed Reformation of the sixteenth century, which first scattered light and liberty throughout Europe; and which is the grand source, under God, of all the varied blessings and privileges which Protestants enjoy, in any region of the globe. Yes! When an association of Churchmen in Great Britain, are diffusing the above mentioned tracts, &c., in every direction — and when it is manifest that this association receives the countenance and aid of many of the leading characters of the New School party, and of some of the dignitaries of the American Episcopal Church; though we are happy to find it discountenanced by others; it is certainly high time for the true friends of the Protestant Reformation, friends of the Bible of its doctrines-its influence, and its universal circulation, to take Bible measures to counteract the baneful errors, the pernicious effects, and demoralizing consequences of a false, a tyrannical, and diabolical power.

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But here, let no one, say we are dealing unfairly, in the plan we have adopted, to reveal the character, works, and destiny, of the "Man of Sin." Our blessed Saviour, himself, has ruled, with direct reference too;.to this very power;

By their fruits ye shall know them." These "fruits" are furnished and shown by history. And God, himself, cannot make that, not to be, which has been; and is already, a part of the record of his providence.

Indeed, in a country so enlightened as Great Britain, where the press is so free, and discussion so unrestrained, is it not wonderful, that men should be found there, who readily countenance a system of imposture-a system, as we shall see, revolting to common sense, and the plainest principles of the sacred Scriptures? Is it not, we solemnly ask, most astonishing, that men of any pretensions to learning and intelligence, to say nothing of Christians in both Britain and America, should stand forth, at this day, and advocate a system of form, parade; of mere external pomp; instead of that contained in the Bible, which tends to purify the affections, to enlighten the understanding, to make men better citizens, better fathers, better husbands, better wives, better children, and better servants? In a word, a system which expands the heart with benevolence, and which induces us to consecrate our time, talents, influence, and property, to the glory of God, and the good of our fellow mortals? Yes, it is wonderful, that such men should be found, who, through a strange obliquity of mind, manifestly under the influence of the prince of darkness, decrying the Protestant reformation; setting themselves, at once, against its pure and sound principles, and taking an open, unblushing stand in favor of the exploded and soul-destroying, God-accursed principles of Popery? This, assuredly, is a most marvelous fact, for Christians to contemplate, who live in the nineteenth century. It baffles all the calculations of common sense and enlightened reason!!! For what has been the opinion of the public in Great Britain,