David says of God, “Holy and Reverend is his name.” All this name the Pope and his Clergy, “of every name and denomination,” for they are all his, though they quarrel with each other now and then, have taken to themselves; Holy Pope and Reverend Clergy, includes the whole of them. Thus they take the name of God in vain, When a young lad is ordained over a parish, or a church, you may see the older clergymen complimenting him in the pulpit, with “Reverend Sir, Reverend and Dear Brother.” The ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY is “the Right Reverend Father in God;” and his Lord and Master THE POPE, was formerly addressed by the blasphemous title “Dominus Deus Noster Papa,” ‘Our Lord God Almighty the Pope‘!!!! How full of the names of blasphemy is the Kingdom of the Clergy! This Kingdom is symbolized in the Apocalypse under the figure of “a woman, sitting upon a scarlet beast, full of the names of blasphemy, having seven beads and ten horns.” And upon her forehead was her name written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON the GREAT, the MOTHER of HARLOTS (sectarian churches,) and of the ABOMINATIONS of the Earth,” (the diabolical doctrines of the Clergy) with which they have intoxicated the people, cajoled them of their substance, and imperilled their eternal weal.
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Keywords: State religion, mark of the beast, number of the beast, 666, reverend, pastor, minister, catholic priest, bishop, catholic, catholic church, roman catholic, roman catholic church, roman catholicism, church of England, Episople, Episcopalian, Episcolpalian church, methodist, Anglican, anglican church, priest craft, priestcraft, cardinal, archbishop, arch bishop
Bible reference(s): Psa 111:9, Rev 13:5-6, Rev 13:11-16, Rev 17:5
Source: “The Word Reverend,” The Apostolic AdvocateVol. 1, No. 6, October 1834, p. 143.
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