 | Theology - 1834 - 804 pages
...learned, by experience, a deeper cunning. In St. Paul's prophecy, it is not the temple or churc/i of Cod, but the man of sin in the temple, — the old man,...principle of the flesh, which exalteth itself against God. An old prophecy of the middle ages makes the same distinction between the city and the church of Rome.... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1843 - 396 pages
...blame, but pity ; she is, as I have said, spell-bound, as if by an evil spirit; she is in thraldom." " In the book of Revelations, the sorceress upon the...principle of the flesh which exalteth itself against God. Certainly it is a mystery of initiuity, and which may well excite our dismay ami horror, that in the... | |
 | 1843 - 780 pages
...shape, was the animating principle of the fourth monarchy. In St. Paul's prophecy, it is not the 1 emple or Church of God, but the man of sin in the Temple,...principle of the flesh, which exalteth itself against God. Certainly it is a mystery of iniquity, and one which may well excite our dismay and horror, that in... | |
 | Religion - 1843 - 846 pages
...shape, was the animating principle of the fourth monarchy. In St Paul's prophecy, it is not the lemple or Church of God, but the man of sin in the Temple,...the old man or evil principle of the flesh, which cxalteth itself against God. Certainly it ua mystery of iniquity, and one which may well excite our... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - Religious poetry - 1843 - 614 pages
...fourth monarchy. In St. Paul's prophecy, it is not the Temple or Church of God, but the Man of Sin m the Temple, the old man or evil principle of the flesh which exalteth itself against God. Certainly // is a mystery of initjuity, and which may well excite our dismay and horror, that in the... | |
 | John Henry Newman - History - 1845 - 480 pages
...said, spell-bound, as if by an evil spirit ; she is in thraldom.' " I say, in the same paper — ' In the book of Revelations, the sorceress upon the...principle of the flesh which exalteth itself against God. Certainly it is a mystery of iniquity, and one which may well excite our dismay and horror, that in... | |
 | William Simcox Bricknell - Oxford movement - 1845 - 776 pages
...Church of Rome, as is often taken for granted, but Rome itself, that bad spirit which, in its iormer shape, was the animating principle of the fourth monarchy....principle of the flesh which exalteth itself against God. Certain] v it is a mystery of iniquity, and one which may well excite our dismay and horror, thai in... | |
 | 1846 - 556 pages
...blame, but pity — she is^as I have said, spell-bound, as if by an evil spirit — she is in thraldom In the book of Revelations, the sorceress upon the...principle of the flesh which exalteth. itself against God. Certainly it is a mystery of iniquity, and one which may well excite our dismay and horror, that in... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...said, spell-bound, as if by an evil spirit ; she is in thraldom.' ' I say in the same paper — ' " In the Book of Revelations, the sorceress upon the...of the flesh — which exalteth itself against God. Certainly it is a mystery of iniquity, and one which may well excite our dismay and horror, that in... | |
 | University magazine - 1846 - 780 pages
...animating principle of the fourth monarchy. In St. Paul's prophecv it ¡4 not the Temple or Church of Goá, but the man of sin in the Temple — the old man or...of the flesh — which exalteth itself against God. Certainly it is a mystery of iniquity, and one which may well excite our dismay and horror, that in... | |
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In the book of Revelations, the sorceress upon the seven hills is not the Church of Rome, as is often taken for granted, but Rome itself, that bad spirit which, in its former shape, was the animating principle of the fourth monarchy. In St. Paul's prophecy,... 
