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ZION’S LANDMARKS 163 V r- I ^■iit Itoiu Ills shoulders; another said, he could afford to tote dight- wood knots in the night to see him burnt, a third, he ought to be hung ; others, that he ought to be taken out of the pulpit and whip ped, &c., etc. blow all this smells of blood, and looks like the devil’s foot to me—much more the evil treatment that I have received from the missionaries, in defaming my character and sending me a great number of letters of abuse from dift'erent States, with no name as signed to them. I have perhaps gone to the post office twenty times, paid down my money for a letter tiiinking it was from some friend, and behold when I have opened it, find nothing but abuse and lying without any name assigned to it, so as to give the writer an answer. Now this I think unchristian and ungentlemanly, and very mean, to clieat me out of my money this way; but it agrees with all the rest, it is the devil’s foot playing the devil in masquerade, or in hypocrisy, subtilty, and lying deceit ; and proves tho.se men are afraid of me, or they would give their names to their letters ; but, like the devil, -Jitoyigaavtd this by-path, .tg hide their toot and keep their track from being seen. I can tell such men tliey need not be afraid of me.—• Come to my hoiise and I will give them some good old apple and hog. Show your cloven foot, be as hon est as the devil, and not put your foot in a bag to hide it, for I smell your track, it is persecution and hfitred for a man’s telling the ti’Uth—the cloven foot of the devil, in all ages of God’s ministers. But I won’t fiu’get my promise, to try to prove the devil has a clo ven foot; nor will I abuse thedevil, lest I abuse my betters; nor tel! lies on old satan, lest he have cause of accusation against me. And, as i am thus faithful to the devil, the missionaries may expect I will be faithful to them also. Now the first case I offer you as proof that the devil has a cloven foot, is the case of Aaron, who set up a devil of a calf in the congregation of Israel to be worshipped by them for a god; and you know a calf has a cloven foot. Did not the devil and Aaron do this ? Was not the devil’s foot here a parted hoof?— Did not this calf part the hoof, and was not this the joint make of the priest and devil, out of the ladies’gold? Well, Sirs, why not the calf of missions, a cloven foot devil since? it is the joint make of the devil and priest, out of the lad ies’ money. Tell me who can, and I am ready to answer in defence of god-like Moses, and beat this devil of a cloven-footed calf of missions to powder by my writings, and give you the water to drink. Yes, Sirs, there is as great begging now by the [jfiests of the ladies for money and bracelets, as there was by priest Aaron. But whatdid Aaron want with the ladies’ bracelets? why, to make a cloven-footed devil of a calf, for all the people to be bawling and hollowing and danc ing around. And what do the mis sionary priests want with the ladies’ bracelets now ? why, to support missions. Lot me ask you a ques tion : Is there not as much scrip ture for begging ladies’ money to make a calt, as there is to beg the ladies’ money to support missions? I say there is, and I challenge any to disprove it. tio .Biat begging the ladies for their brac.rlets tx) make a cloven-footed calt, and beg ging the ladies for money to sup port missions rest on the same foun dation ; I^pth cross God’s ymrd u- both are idol calves, both founded on money begging of the ladies ; and I say the invention of the dev il and the priests in botli cases, and so in both are seen the cloven foot of the devil. For I have never read in the history of any nation that ladies paid a poll tax, how then can tlie priests insist by beg ging that they should pay to the support of missionary priests, even to bracelets, rings, bobs, jewels, &c., which plainly shows the dev il’s cloven foot in missions, tor the ladies are the devil’s tools. Don’t take the snuff, ladies, for no man can have a greater respect, nor be a be*'ter well wisher, nor more ready to serve the ladies than my self; but I must tell the truth, if the devil stands grinning at the door. For you know the devil made a tool of our old grandmo ther Eve to throw the world off its hinges; and of the wives and con cubines of wise Solomon, to turn him fool; and of a Delilah, to shear the locks of a Sampson and render him as weak as another man; and to render the life of a Job a curse to him. But for all this 1 am for the ladies, because notwithstanding they are the tools of the devil, yet G'hI was [)Ieased to give their weakne.ss the greatest strength, by putting a club in their hands to break the vskuil of tlie devil by the truth of Jesus Christ, and by Esther to deliver tlie Jews. So it is then that the ladies are both the tools of God and the devil; of God to do good, aiul of the devil to do had. And thu.s the missionary and the devil have made great Use of them to break the peace of the church of God; and if 1 were to guess in this matter, I sliould say the devil and prie.st have made tools of the ladies to divide the cliurch of God and scatter tlie sheep as the raui'e easy prey for wolves. But I .shall not let you go off with this [irouf of the devil’s cloven foot crossing G'id’s commands.— But offer you further, that the Egyptians worshipped a bull of a certain description, of whicli 1 could tell you many things from history. It was here that Aaron learnt the art of craftmaking.— And I need not tell you that the whore ot Rome set up missions, and here the Baptists have learnt the art of missionmaking by money.— Disprove it if you can. And like wise yvou know King Jeroboam set ,^np tvvoot bhesecloven-footed calves, one at Dan and the other at Bethel; and consecrated priests to attend on these cloven-footed calves ves of the lowest order of the peo ple. Now say, don’t you think here isthedevil’s track right across God’s command? Don’t yon think the devil had a hand in this ? Don’t you see his cloven foot in these calves, tliese idol o-ods ? Now as further proof, in Leviticus, 17th chapter, read : “They shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring.” And again: says Paul, the things which tlie Gens tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice unto devils. Again: we read of th.e doctrine of devils, tlie cup and ta ble of devils, of the walking about ot the devil, &c., &c., all of which I could tell you many things, and bring many more proofs of the devil’s cloven foot, but this will do for the present, as for my trying to prove the devil has a cloven foot. And I shall now try to measure his track in short order, and while I am measuring hi.s track, you look on and see if he has not a par ted hoof. And first, in a kind of general way, the devil’s track is deception, a double intention ; that is, he says one thing and means another, or says one thing to effect another.— He engages to perform a thing, and neither intends to do so, nor does he I perform his promise. He declares a I thing is so, yet don’t intend it shall ; be so. He makes use of truth to substiuitiate his lies. He makes use I of scripture to cover his divine lies. He is very religious to answer his own ends, and tliereby cover his de- ! ceit and hypocrisy. He is very fair I to face, but a liar behind the curtain. ; He appears in sheep skin, but has the teeth, venom, and foot of a wolf.— He is a serpent coiled in a bed of pinks, a wasp hid under the leaf of roses, a negro clothed in a white gar ment, a jack with liis lantern to lead wandering sinners to hell; promises great things and performs nothing ; lying, falsehood, guile, deceit, hypo crisy, fair appearance, and false re ligion, are the tools he works with to effect the damnation of man.— He is a lamb in meekness to effect his ends, but a roaring lion when he has it in his power. These are only symptoms of the length of his foot and of his parted hoof. I shall now take the exact mea- sme for your satLfaction. I Timo- • riiy^ir.- It ' eth expressly, that in latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and I doctrines of devils.” Do mark in ■ your memory these words, (seducing spirits and doctrines of devils,) as they are to my purpose as proof of the length of the devil’s foot.— jVeise2: “Speaking lies in hypoe- j risy, having their consciences sear- i cd as with a hot iron. Don’t foro-et I G I to mark this—lies in hypocrisy, and I above all, the conscience seared a,s ! with a hot iron. For the love of ; money is this hot iron, heated in the : forge of hell, to sear the consciences of men with. This hot iron of the love of money has seared the con sciences of kings, emperors, queens, and generals of the earth, to make war on nations and individuals for spoil, gain and plunder, to fill their empty purses with; so that they have disregarded the groans and suft’ering of the fatherless, or the tears and sighs and sorrows of the widow, or the lifeless corpses of the field of the slain weltering in blood, no more than if they had been a pen of hogs fat for slaughter. The love of mo ney is this same hot iron to sear the consciences of priests with, and
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