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strange god is Liberty, and since the other tutelary gods are the various allegorical deities of the infidel republic, their champions must undoubtedly mean the propagators and supporters of those principles upon which the French revolution was founded. These supporters then, together with his favourite idol, Liberty, the king was to cause to rule over many. It seems almost superfluous to point out the accuracy with which this part of the prophecy has received its accomplishment. The avowed principle of France has been at once to extend the empire of her turbulent children, those indefatigable champions of her Mahuzzim; and to cause the whole world to bow down before the shrine of that imaginary deity, which they misname Liberty. "The citizen and the legislator ought to acknowledge no other worship than that of Liberty, no other altars than those of their country, no other priests than the magistrates." For the purpose of more widely diffusing this system, a decree of fraternity to all rebels against their lawful sovereigns was formally passed by the national convention :* and it was determined that the system itself should be extended to all countries occupied by their armies.† Wherever the infidel tyrant has prevailed, he has caused his strange god, and the upholders of his Mahuzzim, to rule over many; and, in every region, where he has been victorious, he has uniformly planted the tree of his idol Liberty. In short, it was by a war of extermination to the enemies of his plans, that he meant univer

In the sitting of the Jacobins, Aug. 27, 1792, Manuel caused an oath to be taken, that every exertion should be used to purge the earth of the pest of royalty.

† “You talked of nothing but liberty, but every one of your actions strove to enslave us. Can you deny it? All your words were orders; all your counsels were the mandates of a despot. We were promised, at least verbally, by the agents of the great nation, that no French troops should enter our canton; that not a sous should be demanded of us: yet the very reverse happened. They had the impudence to exact from us three millions of livres; they had the cruelty to march troops into our canton, without the least previous application, to exhaust our poor innocent country. In other words, they forced upon us the liberty of suffering ourselves to be stripped of all rational freedom. Open thine eyes, great nation, and deliver us from this liberty of hell.” (Lavater's letter to the Executive directory of the French Republic, dated the first year of Helvetic slavery.) Similar to this was the conduct of France in every country where her arms prevailed. "A la place du supplice, Madame Roland s'inclina devant la statue de la Libertè, et prononça ces paroles memorables: O Libertè ! que de crimes on commet en tan nom!" Appel à l'impartiale posteritè, cited by Kett.

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sally to establish the power of the advocates for democracy and atheism.

The pernicious philosophy, upon which the revolution was founded, affords the only satisfactory key to the actions which it has produced. One of the hidden maxims of that philosophy is, first to gain a firm footing by fraud, and afterwards to propagate itself by brutal force; adopting the words reason, toleration, and humanity, only as a signal and call to arms. Such accordingly are the instructions given to the initiated by the hierophant of the Illuminati. 66 Serve, assist, and mutually support, each other; augment our numbers; render yourselves at least independent, and leave to time and posterity the care of doing the rest. When your numbers shall be augmented to a certain degree, when you shall have acquired strength by your union, hesitate no longer, but begin to render yourself powerful and formidable to the wicked.* The very circumstance of your being sufficiently numerous to talk of force, and that you really do talk of it, that circumstance alone makes the profane and wicked tremble. That they may not be overpowered by numbers, many will become goodt of themselves, and will join your party. You will soon acquire sufficient force to bind the hands of your opponents, to subjugate them, and stifle wickedness in embryo. Extend and multiply the children of light, until force and numbers shall throw power into our hands."+ So again: "Nations must be brought back to the nomade state, by whatever means are conducible: peaceably, if it can be done; but if not, then by force, for all subordination must be made to vanish from the earth."S

These doctrines were faithfully acted up to by the French demagogues, when they had taken the reins of government into their own hands. Such, as refused to subscribe to their diabolical creed, and to worship their Mahuzzim, were inhumanly persecuted as fanatics by these philanthropic lovers of toleration; and were adjudged to be worthy of death, because they were suspected

That is, in plain English, all who are unwilling to swallow their blasphemous absurdities. + Anglice, atheists. Barruel's Mem. of Jacobin.

$ Ibid.

of being suspicious persons. "In different parts of the country, many, who declined taking the oath, were killed at the doors of the churches: and in Brittany several priests are said to have been hunted through the forests; where, after enduring every extremity of hunger and fatigue, they perished miserably; and their mangled carcases were afterwards found torn by briars, and half devoured by beasts of prey." It was afterwards decreed, that all ecclesiastics, who had not taken the national oath should be transported, and that, if any commotion be stirred up in favour of fanaticism, all the clergy should be imprisoned. It was further resolved that, since the people of Paris acknowledge no other worship than that of Reason and Truth,‡ all the churches and temples of different religions and worship, which are known to be in Paris, shall be instantly shut; and that every person, requiring the opening of a church or temple, shall be put under arrest as a suspected person. In short, "the greatest hostility to the ministers of the church prevailed, to the service of the church, to all celebration of devotion, to any profession of Christianity, or even reverence of the name of the Supreme Being. The churches were plundered; the name of God was blasphemed; the clergy were declared to be capable of every crime, and made responsible for every tumult; and the will of those persons was ordered to be particularly respected, who renounced all worship except that of the republican virtues." || Not content with exercising this tyranny over her own inhabitants, France has bowed beneath the same iron yoke, Holland, Switzerland, Piedmont, and a considera

Soupçonnès d'etre suspects.

Hist. the Inter. Vol. ii. p. 229.

The French republicans seem to use Reason and Truth much in the same sense as Liberty; meaning, I suppose, to insinuate that their Liberty was the natural offspring of Reason; of Reason, as it were, in the concrete. Hence we find it recommended in the Convention with much mock solemnity, that "the will of such sections should be respected, which have renounced all religious worship, except that of Reason, Liberty, and the republican Virtues ;" in other words, that of the strange god, and bis kindred Mabuzzim.

§ Hist. Interp. Vol. ii. p. 234, 239.

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|| Mr. Kett adduces these facts, to prove, that infidelity and revolutionary France ar the apocalyptic two-borned beast and his image. Though I cannot think, that either the beast or bis image has the slightest connection with French atheism and republican tyranny; yet the facts are not on that account the less valuable, as facts. Hist. the Int. Vol. ii. p. 244,

ble part of what once was Germany; perpetually chang ing, with worse than childish capriciousness, both their religious and their civil establishments: and, if she has failed in executing all the antisocial and antichristian projects of the illuminized conspiracy, it has rather been from want of power than of will.

Thus has the king caused his tutelary deities and their upholders to rule over many; those deities, whom he himself has honoured instead of the God of heaven.

2. The king was moreover to honour his Mahuzzim, together with his foreign god, with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and desirable things-This part of the prophecy has been accomplished by Infidel France both indirectly and directly, both abroad and at home. When Italy was plundered of the finest specimens of the arts by the modern advocates of freedom, and when the decorations of her palaces were transported to France and declared to be the sole property of the sovereign people; Liberty was the deity thus honoured with desirable things, for Liberty was that which sanctioned every violation of private rights. When the ornaments of the churches were either confiscated, or rapaciously carried off by the infuriated mob; Liberty, Reason, and the Republican Virtues, were the Mahuzzim thus honoured with gold, and silver, and precious stones.* When the noble church of St. Genevieve, profusely decorated by all the skill of architecture, was desecrated, under the name of

"By an edict of the constituent assembly, there was a general sale of all ecclesiastical property; and every kind of property, connected with churches or charities, was confiscated." (Hist. the Inter. Vol. ii. p. 232, 233.) "In November, a deputation from the societies of Versailles was admitted to the bar, loaded with chalices, crosses, and other ornaments from their churches. The priest of the Roman church, said they, the Bishop of the department of Seine and Oise, is dead. Will you suffer a new one to be elected? Will you, who have overturned the throne, suffer the pontifical canopy to remain? Will you, who have broken crowns and sceptres, preserve their proud rivals, the mitre and the cross?-The citizen and the legislator ought to acknowledge no other worship than that of Liberty, no other altars than those of their country, no other priests than the magistrates. Do you, legislators, like that of the Hebrews, come down from the mountain, break in pieces the golden calf, and let the ark of the constitution be the only idol of the French." (Ibid. p. 239.) "The Sans culottes considered themselves as authorized to plunder every place of worship, public and private; and divided with the Convention large heaps of shrines, figures, and vessels, hitherto used in the offices of religion, while the commissioners from the Convention aided the sacrilegious pillage." (Ibid. p. 240, 241.) All these enormities have been expressly perpetrated in the name, and for the honour, of Liberty.

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the Pantheon, to the tutelary gods of Infidelity; the triumph of Liberty was complete, the foreign god and his kindred Mahuzzim had received the highest honours which the atheistical king had it in his power to bestow. 3. The king was likewise to divide the land for a price. He was to take it from its former possessors, and divide among his adherents, the champions of his Mahuzzim, on the consideration of being paid by them a certain price for it-This peculiarity in his character at once shews that he cannot be either the Pope or the Constantinopolitan Empire, and points out with singular exactness the power which he was designed to prefigure. The conquerors of foreign nations have not unfrequently divided the lands of the conquered among their victorious troops : but such a division bears no resemblance to that which the infidel king should contrive. Successful invaders rarely sell the lands, which they have seized: but this kingdom or power was not merely to divide the land; it was to divide it for a price. It was first to declare the land exclusively its own property, and then to sell it for money to the champions of its Mahuzzim. Exactly such has been the conduct of the atheistical republic; nor will it be easy to point out any state, which ever adopted a similar line of conduct, certainly none since the era of the Reformation, when we are taught by Daniel to expect the appearance of the infidel king. The French Revolution has differed from all others, not only in producing a change of government, but likewise in effecting a complete change of landed property. By a deeplaid stroke of policy, and with a view to preclude for ever the possibility of a counter-revolution, the lands both of the crown, the church, and the nobility, were taken away from their lawful owners, and declared to be the sole property of the nation. This preparatory step having been taken, the lands were next, as it is well known, sold at a low price to the partizans of anarchy and atheism; by which master-stroke of Machiavelian villany an insurmountable barrier was raised against any future attempt to re-establish the Bourbons, for it was made the direct interest of every landholder throughout France to oppose their return.