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164 ZION’S LANDMARKS. make them tell lies and put on the cloak of hypocrisy for gain by godli ness. And with this hot iron of the married the first couple—therefore, when the Saviour spoke of putting away wives, he said in tlie beginning love of money has the devil seared it was not so ; for God formed one the consciences of ten thousand [ woman for one man, and no more priests, as I could prove if my limits (while she lived, and married them would admit; that they have had no feeling nor no more regard for wid ows, orphans, nor for the suft'erings turned a beef history Then of men that dare oppose them and cut olf their tithes and gain by reli gion, than if the moneyed priests were a parcel of butchers loose with their bull doc’s in pen, to kill and slaughter foi Those well read in church know I can prove the facts whenever money is added to the min istry by law, by begging, by sal ary, or by promised expectation, you sear the conscience of the minister as with a hot iron, though you nor he may not perceive it at the present And by this adding to the ministry money, not as a necessity, but as a together; and Abraham, Jacob, and Solomon’s cases prove to demonstra tion the curse of having more wives than one. And if the ladies won’t be mad, 1 will say one curse at a time is enough; and he that has more wives than one, will find his hands and heart full of curses; and forcing the commandments of men and the traditions of the priests to make money, for the commandments of God; such as, the lust and love of money so, that priests will tell lies on God to set it, or have it in all the cursed duping schemes they can invent. Strange indeed that the right sport, too, because God formed them for a help meet for man, but when she turned the world upside down by her sin and wishing to wear the breeches, she has become a help curse, a cause curse, the worst curse, and the most painful curse of all the heart of man ever endured. Don’t be mad, ladies, for you know I don’t beat the bushes to please man nor woman; but give both the broadsword stimulus and beacon to men to enter j when they stand in the wrong path, the ministry, you produce five things: | Be content to wear the petticoat, and seducing spirits, doctrines of devils, speaking lies, hypocrisy, and a sear ed conscience—or, a cursed unfeel ing regard for the softer passions of human nature. This is true, I say, from the study of church history.— Now here comey the length of the ■'devit’s foot fb'" a hair’s^ In’e^dth— verse 3: “Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to bo re ceived with thanksgiving of them never, no never, jirk the breeches out of your husband’s hands; if you do, nature teaches him to be offended in a minute, and thus you only curse yourself—make him happy by your obedience and submission th his laws. rules, wjll aiid wishes, and jthis ■syllj.^'y doctrine ol tlm devil, be very priests who are set to tell man kind the vanity of all earthly things, should take such nigh cuts and un derhanded swindling ways to make money, and thereby prove their lust from the heart of the precious stul?. These things defile first in my eyes, let them think as they please, more than any man’s eating frog or tak ing his drink of grog. In the above text you see what I said in the outset, that the devil’s path lies right across God’s path— first, in forbidding to marry. Has God forbid any sort or set of men to marry ? He that says he has, I say is a liar. Therefore Paul, by th® spirit on him, saw the rise of the popish priest who forbid the priests to marry, called it the doctrine of devils; and why, but because forbid ding 'to marry is a lie on God, fur be has no where forbid any kind of men to marry, only prescribed rules for marrying. Then forbidding to mar- Then we see in these scriptures that the exact measure of the devil’s foot is lying right across God’s word and permission. Take this, my old school brethren, as your guide Jo know the devil’s foot, track, and measure to a hair’s- ^jreadth by, and you cannot miss one time in a mil lion. For the devil’s path in offices, doctrines and discipline, lies direct across God’s word and permission. He makes observances for the church to obey, for his priests to get moneys . this is his track, I tell you, I Know his forked foot wadi. He (jiiotCs old Jewish practices, customs and cere^ [monies to yoke the Gentile Christian church with, and sets them up for law’s for the gospel church; saying, except you be circumcised you Can not be saved, or your children must be baptised or they will be damned; both of which cross God’s word, and therefore are the doctrines of devils. For baptism by going into the water and coming out of water, is found m God’s word; but pouring and sprink- w’hich believe and knoAV the truth.— Versed: For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused (no not even a pole cat) if it be received with thanksgiving. Verse 5: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. Verse 6: If thou put the brethren in mind of those things, thou shalt be a pood minister of .Je sus Christ,” &c. In mind of what things ? why, of latter times, of se ducing spirits, of doctrines of devils, of the priests speaking lies in hy pocrisy, of their seared consciences —when they (the priests) could burn them at stakes, and stand and see them broiled like bacon on gridirons or hot coals, and feel no conviction of conscience—and of forbidding to marry, and of abstaining from meats. Now here is the measure of the devil’s foot, a seducing spirit; second, lies in hypocrisy; third, a priest with a seared conscience, or an unfeeling disposition towards mankind, where his tithes are at stake; fourth, across God’s commands, as God nimself make you happy; and don’t pervert the command of God, “waves submit to your owm husbands”—for there is a blessing there to both. But if you rebel against this command of God, I tell you there is a curse to both you and him; a poison to your peace and happiness on earth, and all the family, and reputation of the wdiole group of connections more or less. Fourth. Abstaining from meats. This is also the length of the devil’s foot, since God created meats to be received for the strength and nour ishment of the bodies of men, and gave license after the flood to man to eat meats of all kinds they chose. And the Saviour says, it is not that wdiich goeth into the belly that de- fileth the man—-(whether terrapin, lizard, scorpion, turtle, mink, pole cat, or any creature else, all may be eaten without making men sinners) for these do not defile the man; but those lusts that cometh out of the heart of man, these defile the man. Such aiS, the priest’s telling lies to get mone}"; such as. their oppressing the poor to aggrandize themselves and families; such as, telling lies on God, saying he has said, when he cause it is a lie and the devil is a liar and the father of lies. So then you may know all the doctrines of the devil by this one rule—they cross God’s w’ord, which is truth.— No matter where you find his doC' trine, whether in offices in the church, or doctrines, or discipline, you may always know’ the devil’s doctrine by its crossing God’s word, but at the has,said no such things; such as, en- same time tr3nng to hide its naked ness under Old Testament usages and customs. To abstain from meats is also by i aul called a devil doctrine. For God in the New’ Testament has no Avhere commanded men to abstain from meats of any kind. Men have not God’s prohidition no Avhere to abstain from meats, yet the cursed popish priests imposed this on the people, to abstain certain kinds and And this Avas the track of the devil and his priests, both Avere liars, and therefore the doctrine of the devil, because a lie; a lie on God, that his Avord in the Ncav Testament no Avhere prohibited. Yet the devil and priest set it up for a doctrine and practice of the church to go by, as a doctrine of God. ling for baptism, crosses this word, iherefore, pouring and sprinkling for baptism is the doctrine, foot, track, and ineasure of the devil’s foot to a hair’sbreadth. So is funeral preacli- ing—that is Bse devil’s track to lUillPS'gain for his priests; foN he in vented it to make money for his hirelings. But the devil of late Ikas invented a ncAV doeti'ine, which is called tem perance doctrine. And the first' proof I o*ffer why the temperance doctrine is a doctrine of devdls, is be cause all the doctrines of the devil have this stamp on them—lies in hy pocrisy. Now then the Temperance Society sets up in the first instance with a lie in its mouth, calling itself Temperance, Avhen in reality it is art Abstaining Society—for teniporaiice means a moderate use of thino’s.— O Can he Avho Avholly abstains put up a claim to cemperanee i Sorely not. His claim must be abstemionsness- and not tempei’ance. The second reason I offer Avhy temperance doc'- from meats of on certain days. trine is the doctrine of the devil, is because of the analogy to the two former, Avhich Paul calls by the Holy Ghost the doctrines of devils, viz; forbidding to marry, and abstaining from meats. Noav we have good authority here to say, both these are doctrines of devils; and pray, if you can, tell me why abstaining from drinks should not al so be the doctrine of devils; since all three cross God’s Avovd equally alike, I r f {
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