The Rambler's Magazine (Volume 1)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1822. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... hereaUi i. For tribulation and anguish are given unto those that love him, an., they are to be despised of all men, which is in a great measure fulfilled already. We could multiply instances without number ofthe abominations of the sons of mother church, and in some future number shall collect them together for the edification of the ungodly. From the depravity of the church, like weeds from a rich dunghill, have arisen sects and schisms without end. Quakers, Shakers, Rakers, Canters, Ranters, Mumpers, Jumpers, Dunkers, New-Jerusalemites and Old-Jerusalemites, Wesleyans, Southcottians, Muggletonians, Sandemanians, Antinnomians, stretching and retching the scriptures to their own purposes for base lucre; blaspheming God and blackguarding the king, leading souls into endless perdition and damnation through their heresies, and sowing division and distrust throughout the land, multiplying the altars of Moloch and of Baal, and making this the burden of their song: Do put some money in the plate. Or I, jour preacher, cannot eat. And from the filth of the church has arisen missionaries, tracts, societies without end, preaching English Christianity in Ireland, and threatening to make the whole world as bad as themselves; so that all the evil which is in the world has arisen from the church, which should be the source of all that is good, which, in one sense, is very natural. He preached against stn, With a terrihle grin. lu which some may think that he acted hut odly, Since he lived by the nicked and not by the godly. This, the philosophers say, is the age of experiment, and we could be no worse off i f an experiment were tried for a time, if we could not do without a church, for the Lord will own his sheep at the last day. Eittatrtcate. Since our last, few occu..