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PROPHECIES CONCERNING ANTICHRIST.
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Scripture justifies such expressions in reference to the angels, it also justifies them equally in reference to the blessed saints reigning with Christ in glory. Is it not our Lord Himself, who tells the faithful soul of His servant, as he welcomes it to the joys of Paradise, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities"?—(Luke xix. 17.) Then let Bishop Newton write as he pleases about the blasphemy of the Church in accepting the declaration of her Divine Master, and in recognising the blessed angels and saints as the patrons and guardians of men, as the protectors and rulers of cities and provinces, his heretical interpretations are silenced by the Gospel of Christ, and in spite of his sneers, England will still be, what she was, the dowry of Mary, the kingdom of St. George; and France, and Spain, and Italy, and Russia, and Greece will continue to recognise their patron saints and their guardian angels, when the heresy of Luther and Newton shall be forgotten, and their descendants shall have returned to the faith of their forefathers, the Catholic faith!

He then who was predicted by Daniel to "worship the God Maozim in his place" is Mahomet, not the pope; and "Maozim" re-