This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...a name written, Mystery, Babvton tbe Great, the Mother of Harlots."--Rev. xvii 5. And there the wish--the energy awake, The bonds of Satan's slavery to break, --The dead'ning fear of human power despise, Cheered by the hopes of an immortal prize! Yet when the struggle to be free was past, The iron chains of Error burst ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...a name written, Mystery, Babvton tbe Great, the Mother of Harlots."--Rev. xvii 5. And there the wish--the energy awake, The bonds of Satan's slavery to break, --The dead'ning fear of human power despise, Cheered by the hopes of an immortal prize! Yet when the struggle to be free was past, The iron chains of Error burst at last, 'Scaped from that place of darkness and despair, Forth into Heaven's reviving light and air, By haunting demons still were they pursued O'er peopled plain and mountain solitude. With death and torture arm'd, throughout the earth The "triple Tyrant" sent his minions forth; And regal power, perverted from its course, Swelled Persecution's tide to wilder force. But vainly did that whelming deluge pour, Vainly from Earth the springing flowers it tore, Its streams but fertilized the land the more. 'Twas by that flood's wild waves that first were borne The plants of grace from southern regions torn, On Scotia's barren strand to strike their root, And free and high beneath her skies to shoot j To flourish there, luxuriant, fresh and green, And beautify her stern and rugged scene, f The Pope. t "Another, and more probable account" of the introduction of Christianity into Scotland "is, that during the persecution raised by Domilian, the twelfth and last of the Caesars, about A.d. 96, some of the disciples of the Apostle John fled into our Island, and propagated there the religion of Jesus...".. "That persecution," under Dioclesian, "became so hot in the south of Britain, as to drive many, both preachers and professors, into Scotland, where they were kindly received, and had the And when these trees of righteousness decayed, Chilled by dark Superstition's blighting shade, That flood it was from ...
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