The Watchman, or Theological Inspector [Afterw.] the Christian Watchman

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: plated with satisfaction by every friend to humanity, and if, even under the circumstances which have led to their accomplishment, we ought not to overlook, declares the Christian Observer, the benefits they are calculated to confer; what then if, as may be, Bonaparte proves the only person who either could or would have effected these important changes, and the benefits they are calculated to confer? Protestants might do well to pause at this reflection. Who so proper as Bonaparte to humble the Pope ? look at facts. ?Scarcely are five years past, since the present Roman Pontiff, Pius the seventh, prostituted Catholicism, in the eyes of its true friends, by his imperial consecration of Napoleon Bonaparte-; of him who, about six years before, boldly boasted, as his best claim, to the thanks of the foes of the true faith, that he had Tirtnally destroyed the power of the popedom; and who has now absolutely atchievcd the temporal annihilation of the papacy.? Wonderful are the retributive ways of Providence I -: ' Watchman, tehat of the Night T The night is not past. Mahomedism must decline with Popery! Napoleon Bonaparte, this at last acknowledged instrument in the Almighty'1 s performance of his mil, seems to know, well to know, his yet unfinished commission. He has told us much of the work he has to do; and what his hands find to do, he will do with all his might. What ho once ventures to prognosticate, he long labours to accomplish. He talks as he means; and he acts as he talks. '. Watchman, tehat of the Night ?' Isaiah's admonition may be here appropriately transcribed: Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about ihee: hide thyself as it were, for a little moment until the indignation be overpast ! These short individu...