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 3od TIMOTHY 8 -1.—" This know alio, tbat 
 In the last days perilous times sliail come." 
 
 There never was a book written, that furnishes such n vast 
 range of faoililiep for testing its truthfulness, us the Bible. It 
 foretells the way-marks in the i-rogiTSs of t'lis world's history • so 
 that from veneration tQ generation the proofs and memorials o/'its 
 foreknowledge, shall never be wanting to the man, who, with in- 
 telligent eye, looks abroad uiHjn the occurrences of his times. 
 ^ Not to srenk of the internal and f^xrorimental manifestation of 
 Itself as the Bo«ik of Ood, which the Bible makes to every believer, 
 there is moru than sufficient evidence of ati external kind, to con- 
 vince every candid mind, that the BiHIo is what it claims to be. 
 The hand-book of explanations, describing some vast panoramfo 
 jncture, mfty be t»roved to be correct or not. tiy a comparison of 
 the scenes in the picture, as the canvas is unfolded, and the deS' 
 criptions and statements contained in the book. If you found 
 close and ujinute correspondence between the descriptions and 
 the actual scenes pre.-ented.yoa would not hcfeitatc to conclude that 
 the author oi that book had seen th« picture previously, and had 
 written from personal knowledge. In the onward march of Prov- 
 idence in the history of the human race, there is being unfolded a 
 vapt panoramic picture. It never was unfolded before; and, 
 therefore, no man could describe it from observation. It is made 
 up of two grand divisions- -the first, exhibiting the scenes and oc- 
 currences of the history of our race, up till the time of the termi- 
 nation of the Jewish dispensation in the death of Christ ; and the 
 second, those of that period commencing at the Cross of Calvary', 
 and extending to the last limit of human history on this earth! 
 For eighteen hundred years this second section of the picture, has 
 been slowly but steadily passing on, before the gaze of the success- 
 ive generations of mankind. All the great and prominent points 
 of interest were foretold and described centuries previously to 
 their coming into view. Many of these are now past, but many 
 alHo, by the steady revolutions of time, are drawing near, and will 
 
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 in due course make their appearance. And as the shifting scene ^ 
 8 DawinK on. it is interesting to j^lanoe, now at the anciently wri^ 
 en dSptbns and predictions fn the Bible,and anon. at the act- 
 Z ream es themselves, as they come into view and F>ass into his- 
 torv The page of Scripture and the page of Providence illus- 
 tmi and iStorpret each other: and to understand either, you 
 must study both Our text this morning, points our attention to 
 Tml of .L^hases and cl--ctemtics ^pf the las^^^^^^^^^ a,.d 
 forewarns us of what may be looked for-" This know also, tnai 
 in the last days perilous times shall conie- 
 
 Eve y houghtful reader of the New Te.tament,.mu8t have ob- 
 ^eXdihii fmnency with which this note of warning is sounded. 
 InlT in iv?l. weread-''Now the Spirit «Pe«keth exnressly, 
 thatinthelattertimes some shall depart from th« .f;»«b;. . &»^ 
 Cain : in II Peter III, 3. God's people are forewarned that there 
 fha cime in the last days scoffers, walking after heir own lusts, 
 and sS' Where is tL promise of his coming ? tor since tha 
 fathers fen asleeif* all things continue as they were from the be- 
 SnS of the creation." These persons are represented us rca- 
 Sgfft^™ the uniformity of nature, that such a doctrine as 
 Tat of Christ's coming to judge the word and consign this ter^ 
 restrial system to universal conflagration, » ""'•««^"«^*«;,''"f.5^i 
 nf 111 keeoinK with the analogy of natural law. We see the tides 
 onKeTuSm in theii- Ibbing and flow.ing-we see day and 
 nicht »Ld time and harvest, summer and winter, following each 
 othewlfh changeless and it would be a violation o 
 
 £ changeless Uniformity, for the world to come to an end, o, 
 be bSrn? up-feay these profound reasoners. And if this unif orm- 
 itv troves thlt no such end of the world is to be looked for as that 
 which tVe Bib c rrediot8:pray how did the world come by its begin 
 Th^^^? f\)r that must have been a violation of a uniformity of a pre 
 SsYbVaCandof vastly longer duratbnt^^^^^^^^ 
 nhiloBonhic scoffers now point. But the Bible lorewarns u>^ inui 
 SaXlosophy was to make its apr.earance in the last days and it 
 has come-a philosophy that sets Nature above Nature's God who 
 made Si her aws, and can at his pleasure, ho d any one of them 
 S suspensfon tbr the more striking and conclusive. manifestation 
 o"h?S to his rational creatures, as in the miracles of our 
 
 ^"^it'ain • Jude in his General Epistle and at the 18th versc,unites 
 wiof the other inspired writers in testifying that there woald be 
 
 " Fur'irer' w^^^^^^^ H Timothy iv, 3. that the tinje 
 
 would tm^when, rome jK,rtions at least of the Christian Church. 
 
would "not endure 8ound doctrine," but would •' hean to th.>m 
 Helve, teachers having itching ears," that thev would^'^^urn aC" 
 their ears from the truth," and be " turned unto fables '" Those 
 who give up the truth generally do accept fables and fancies the 
 mo«t absurd, and without any evidence whatever. Again in II 
 
 rivily, shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord 
 that bought them," &c. This language evidently p .ints o the er 
 ronsts who deny the ntoning nature of Ol.ri.t'. deoth ; who ronre 
 jnt Him as dying a martyr to the doctrines he taught ; and who 
 
 "Te I o d whl'h''^ was subHtitationaiy. It is in hLluructeT^ 
 the Lord who bought them," that they deny Him. Also Paul 
 describes the^e false teachers as '' having the f„rm of godiine'" 
 but denying the power thereof "-language which is s rilinai; 
 Wiptiveoftheso, who deny that thert islTueh a thi g s x^^^^ 
 mental religion, and insist thnt Christianity is a refir*ng svS 
 of mere moral culture, Wh exquisitely excellent as such V and 
 who, therefore, praise and applaud it and its Great Founder and 
 ^henu^ ' "^'""'^"^ ♦'^ess, as having all the virJue in 
 
 Now, while in some of the passages quoted, we are warned to 
 expect open Infidel Scoffers outside of the Church in the hS 
 days, m most of them, and in many other pa.ssigo8 to which we 
 might refer, we are warned to exj^-ct a Christianized hfiddUul 
 
 n confer."; •''" '««* *!™««-»° "fidelity not facing her honest > 
 n conflict, but m sneaking concealment within her pale we>irinJ 
 
 ^^^^h'^ "" outlineof the descriptions given in Scripture, of the 
 corruptions which were to display their hideous forms within he 
 Church, m the perilous times of the last days. 
 And now it may be important to inquire," more particularly in 
 
 Z n;w r ki *" ^® Chriftianity as a .system of doctrine? Is 
 i^umSil'' *\'"°^ o^,oXxor^^ and difficulties that these migh? 
 accumulate to such an extent, as to overwhelm its claims to be 
 what It professes ? Certainly not The Bible never hints a sir! 
 gle fear anywhere, as to whether it shall maintain its crminH no 
 H ^'stem of infallibb truth. The - perilous times " oHelas 
 
 in Christianitr "' '^ ""^ ^"^ '^'^^"^'" '" *^^ ^'^'^' ^' 
 
 inTllL'}^r4^f^'w-"-" -— '' I^/i'^^^^P^h^t^lass of persons 
 •• ^»»reii, Wmi arc uuc inorougniveHJablished in the faUU 
 
 persons of superficial religious knowledge- weak-minded Sns" 
 
easily unsettled and led astray. The tu se teachers ol the per 
 ilouB times," and their victims too, «re described by the Apostle 
 lu the 6th verse, where he says-" For of this sort are they which 
 creep iiao houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, 
 —persons *• ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge 
 of the truth." These errorists "creep into hounes --invHde the 
 sanctities and secrecies of the family circle and '♦ lead captive sillv 
 women." And are not the Ai>08tlc'8 words finding most striking tul- 
 filment in the weak minded, silly, sentimental young ladies ot the 
 Episcopalian Church in Englund.who,if we are to believe the most 
 reliable journals and newspapers in Britain, have actually allowed 
 ihemHelves to be made pliant tools in the hands ot Pusryite mm- 
 isters, who are Romanizing the English Church as rapidly as they 
 can ; and have recently taken the further step oil introducing, m 
 a coVert and plausible manner, the worst ol all Rome s abomina- 
 tionh— I mean the confessional ? , „ , r 
 
 ** Silly women " have led the way and set the example ot con- 
 fessing to Puseyite ministers, who to all intents and purposes are 
 Romish Priests ; and who show that they understand just as well, 
 how to " creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. 
 
 Not only are such times described as being nenlous to the 
 weak minded and silly, it is also asserted that the teachers ol 
 such error, shall bring upon themselves " swilt destruotion 
 
 And further, such times are perilous to the Church as an or- 
 ganization. The visible Church is liable at any time to become 
 Infected with heresy. Her light may become obscured, and the 
 most essential doctrines of salvation may be so darkened, explain- 
 ed away, or mingled up with certain counteracting errors, that 
 the best means of restoring light to the world, and at the same 
 time, of punifhing a faithless Church, is lor tJod m his Providence 
 to rend her to pieces, take the best material m her, out ot hcr,and 
 form it into a new organization. Such hu.: been Wis <»tt«e ?n 
 times past. Disruptions and reformations mark the Church s his- 
 tory. When the witnesses for truth within her, have argued, and 
 agitated, and done their utmost, they can but leave her, like men 
 taking to the boats trom a sinking ship. God'b voice to them is, 
 
 *• Come out of her, my people." . i ji jj j 
 
 And is not this call of mercv and warning very loudly addrewed 
 at the present time to the evangelical party m the Church ot bng 
 land? Melancholy it would be. no doubt to see Romish Puseyiim 
 left as the established representative ol Kngland s Frotestantism, 
 and iho trnlv Protestant Party cast over board. But do the iSvan 
 geUcaissuppose that they can drive out ihe FuseyiteB r i ney can 
 Srive out neither Puseyite nor Infidel. For a long dmii a large 
 
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 cluHS, tiven of those belonging to other Christim denominations, in 
 Britain, were satisfied thit tne E|iiscopnlian Church flhouldcnjov 
 in (teuoe her vast endowuients, because they believed her sound in 
 the cause of ProteHtantism, n luighty breuHtworIc against the en- 
 crouchuientR of Popory, and the invasionn of Iiifid<;lity. She liae 
 now uio^t emithatically otiased to bo a brtantwork against cither the 
 one or the otnor. From many of her pulpits most of the distinc- 
 tive tenets of Ilonie, are fireachcd from Sabbath to Sabbath. 
 And, as regards the forms of her wor8hip, hIio U making rapiil 
 progress in the use of lighted candles at her fxsrvicos in broad day 
 light, altar clotho and priestly vestmentH with inHcriptiooH and 
 emblems in curious needle-work, that not only ape, but ulmo<it 
 oqual the religious millinery of Her who figuros in the book of 
 Revclatiooi in " fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, docked with 
 
 f[old and precious stones and pearls." And now, with iier con- 
 es8ional, pray where is her protestantism ? 
 
 And as regards Infidelity, its most |)oli!<hed and (.•nvenomed 
 shafts, in modern times, come from behind her ramparts I Thif 
 is the Church that unchurches nil other Churches — that refuse* 
 to recognize them as anything but religious societies, whose bap- 
 tisms and sacramental tables are without authority or validity ; 
 because the ministers who offioiute, are outside of that Popish ti/j-- 
 ment of an " apostolic succession," and, therefore, not scripturui- 
 ly ordained. 
 
 If" a^tostolic succession," in the sense of the Church of Eng- 
 land, were worth contending about, we can prove wo have it as 
 well as they ; for John Knox was admitted to Priest's ')rder8 in 
 the Church of Rome. In like mannc: "an the Methodists claim 
 it through John Wesley ; and othe? i rotestant denomination? 
 eun make good their claims too. But we take far higher ground, 
 and hold, that the true succession is, that which is Apostolic in 
 doctrine. Apostolic in discipline, and Apostolic in practice. Let 
 those then wheeling totl.is figment more ardentiv than they do 
 to the Cross of Christ, un church us u they will. The same 
 thing was done by their great predecessor!-, to our Lord Jesuf 
 Christ. The Evangelist, Luke, tells us in the begmning of the 
 20th chapter, how as Jesu^* '" taught the people and preached thf 
 Gospel," haughty Phariseeism. strutting in its robesof officc.camc 
 to him in the peri?oo of the chief priests and scribes, and called in 
 question the authority and vulidlty of his official acts, asking — 
 " By what authority doest thou these things ? or who is he t^ai 
 gave thee this authority ?" Whether souls were perishmg bv 
 thousanug and millions or not. was not the question ; but '' author 
 Uy," true scccession in office, was the question with these self com- 
 
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 filaccnt ecolcsi iHtiort. To be unohurohcd nsjwe are, only idontifiesi 
 us all the iiioro closely with the Ohurch'H S;iviour and Head; 
 whom the Ph iri^ees of foniier times refused to recognize as in the 
 true Hucco'sion. Thov nn churched themselves by such proced- 
 ure; and clinging to the Hymbols and shadows of spiritual au- 
 thority, thijy lost the re.ilify itself, and were left without a church 
 or an altar. And the Kouie ward infatu:ttion of a l-irgn portion 
 of the English Olmrch ut the present time, soeins to point to a 
 similar doom, so fur as all that constitutes a Church is concerned. 
 All the more mysteriou« does it seem, when wo consider that the 
 Piiftacy is boginning to totter to its fall. But if their theory of 
 the '• :i|»ostolic succession " is corn-ct, it is obvious that it is !n 
 Homo the\ <iught to bo, for, confessedly, by her they have it. 
 And there is nothing more certain than that the tendency of the 
 doctriijo is, to draw biclf to Rome all who hold it Sad it is to 
 sec a leprosy so incurabltt seizing on England's Protestant estab- 
 lishment, — the church wliose official representative administers 
 the coronation oath to Britain's Kings and Queens; and who 
 swears them to hold and defend the Protestant faith I But this 
 alarming degeneracy is only another confirmation of the Bible, 
 which foretells that in the last days " perilous times " should 
 come; and that some of the church's teachers should depart from 
 the faith, and '• privily bring in damnable here.sie8 " 
 
 Were they honest men, as the evangelical party tell them, they 
 would leave the church ; but they stay in, in order to *' bring in " 
 the 8i)ecic8 of teachmg which Paul describes. This movement, 
 however, will, no doubt, result in bringing about ttie fulfilment of 
 purposes and designs in the providence of Him who can bring 
 ffooa out of evil ; and deplorable as such degeneracy i8,yet it may 
 fulfil and confirm those Scripture predict! ons,which warn the peo 
 pie of God that such departures from the faith, were to take 
 place in the last times. And it appears to me that there is a pre- 
 diction, in the Book of Revelation, of this 8j)eoial movement, and 
 a strikingly graphic description of it. In the 13th chapter we 
 are informeathat when the Popish Ecclesiastical System begins 
 to experience its death woundH,and to totter in weakness, another 
 and milder form of the Old Apostacy is to spring up, and impart 
 new life to the dying image of the old. In the first part of the 
 chapter we have a description of the " Beast,'' of such monster 
 notake— part Bear, part Leopard, and part Lion — having seven 
 heads and ten horns. By almost universal consent Protestant ex- 
 positors regard this " beast " as representing that apostate church, 
 thit has uclaKcd the cnrth with thc blood of the saints- But we 
 are told that this '* beast " is to be saoceeded by another* veky dif- 
 
fiBrent in appearance, mild nn.i l.imblike in ronn. hut in ronlifv 
 
 b;r;rrn'i t'nr ''^^"'^ ''-' ^'"•" ^•'•^'' " '^' '^ --^' 
 
 Read frounhu 11 H, vcrHc;.- ' And I beheld »notl,«r be««t con.- 
 ing up out oJ the eurth, and he had two hornH. like a lamb ai d 
 he 8,.ak« aH u dragon. And he < xercis. th all ihe , ow ' r Tl 
 first beu8t before him ; and causeth the earth, and them which 
 
 healed. And he doeth great wonders «o that he maketh fire 
 come down Irom heaven on the earth, in the Hi^ht of n en And 
 ho deceiveth .h.m th.t dwel on .he e;.rfh. by thr me.' of (Xh 
 muaclej wh.ch he had rn.wer to do in the sivhf of the bea- ; Z- 
 ing to them that dwell on the earth, th.t thi-y should mMke\;n 
 
 fZ\ ». 5 ^ ^i L'^r'" ^" ^C^*^ ''^^ ^^' ""= •"•"^'^ "«■ the beast, 
 that the image of the beast shuuld both si^-ak," %c. 
 
 lUohrstbe.Ht rose un out the '•.sea,^' which is the embien, 
 
 of tumult, corruption, an J anarchy. Tho second, la.nb like b.^ 
 
 s Kaid to rise out of the -earth." which is significant. orHheeon- 
 
 ind'itl°wrn'?h'\^- ?r'''''^^ '^"^ «",'^'^'''^^^ ''"«-'• 'ocie'V. 
 pin .miat . ^ ^'^ ^''^ .^^^f ' ^'' woun.led by a «m,W,-,,s the 
 Papal System has recently becn.-that the second beast corner to 
 preserve and perpetuate his image, and n.ako it vcn.Tahle h 
 behove.s us to speak with great humility and caution, o- the ioter 
 retation of pro!;hccy not actually, out ami out, fulfiled and a 1 
 he more would I speak with caution hero, because no cnmt • 
 tator on tjie passage gives such an interf^rot.itioi, of it Some re 
 
 Sue Pa..! ^^''1 "f, *^'^'"^' ^'••'^""' -'"^ *'^« second bV'st \^ 
 Kome Papal : and other interpreters njake the first be ,st rcme. 
 
 ual power"" ^''""" ' '^' ^'^'"' ' ""^ '^'' «^°'^"'^' ''•« •'P''^''- 
 
 Theaptne.s8 of the application of the p.-.s-sago to tho present 
 
 e^"vTe'"%rh''"'-^ '" the Chnrch of ^EngLd. must's 
 evtr> one. feuch an interr-retation coud not have been thouifht 
 
 h ^7^n?J'"•'/^•'V^'""''^^'"*«l:»^« ^^"-^ "'"»^en; and. therefore 
 It 18 not wonderful that there should be, as Barnes suyg '• almost 
 as many opinions as there have been interpreters." No theor- 
 
 cultV-"n/r T%^ "" ^V^ ^r^«^' ^'' ^''^ ^«J^ »« be fi^o of' dfffi- 
 V I. ?.^ <^*? I consider the interpretation now given, alto/jether 
 tree of difficulty either. The objections to it may porsibly fi'an- 
 pear, as the course of events move on. Up to the present w)in 
 Putyism iuLrrn' facts very remarkab/v. Lamf like inZd! 
 
 npnT K^,P \^ ***® «"'"? ""^ ''^^*y' «"'^ *h« appearance of inno. 
 oence; but, when arrested on suspicion by publie Qn,„ion'" nd 
 
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 of a system, whiof, „„'""'•"' '*?»"'ngiii(cotedwitl, .i.' .'''' *">' 
 
 »H «od ooiulorf ,«'p ''""""y nation ever ,w^ '"d .vet, incon- 
 •"8 in " the ienith nn'*'"''? Three IZdl^ t?"'*'*' "'"' «"« 
 
 »»er glory, and him 1/;'* ''^» *>een l,er fate? Q?.- '^"?*^ «"<* 
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 drive out the ermSfl^ appljances by which /'^i^^'V ^e wisely 
 to do it • but rj°"^*»' Old save the ehiiroh .u **^,<^»^c>l»line and 
 
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 feel the degradaLn of!"'? ^"'^ '^'» Purpose bu^/'^" f *'>«'> 
 
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»joe that pmven it 
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 :)licated nn she has 
 Wnj?an apostate 
 er treasury, it niny 
 n on her, by her 
 •d with the Ippposy 
 J' and yei, incon- 
 "^aped, that gave 
 
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 ' ^ne friend and 
 
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 narrower hmit«, 
 
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 ;tjr»f Protestant 
 Jiuropean na- 
 r IS only accord- 
 ^;»encneed. that 
 "^^ot him who 
 .nee, and thy 
 '"^ the United 
 **car)e. and that 
 her Protestant 
 ^;'iscopaoy,that 
 \ and queens. 
 Its worship in 
 o.*id day lijeht ; 
 Jo Rome for 
 the Ei-angeli- 
 [!»cv be wisely 
 'i«cipline and 
 a^e the heart 
 ""on of their 
 'ayes them to 
 wither toJer 
 
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 eclares, that 
 s when the 
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