The Two Babylons; Or, the Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife

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. 1862 Excerpt: ...t Sir J. R Davis, vol. H. p, 67. i Ibid., vol. ii. p. 61. § Sermon of an Italian Priest, in Evangelical Christendom, May, 1853. j British Reformers, 'Jewell,' p. 209. % Catholic Layman, July, 1856 Lainoa Puran, apud Kennedy's Ancient and Hindoo Mythology, p. 338, Note. Emphanitjs, Adrerms Hnrcscs, vol. i. p. 1054. + Begg'h Handbook of Popery, p. 259. Fig. 37. "the Corn." (Fig. 37).§ The uninitiated might reverence Ceres for the gift of material corn to nourish their bodies, but the initiated adored her for a higher gift--for food to nourish their souls--for giving them that bread of God that cometh down from heaven--for the life of the world, of which, if a man eat, he shall never die." Does any one imagine that it is a mere New Testament doctrine, that Christ is the "bread of life"? There never was, there never could be, spiritual life in any soul, since the world began, at least since the expulsion from Eden, that was not nourished and supported by a continual feeding by faith on the Son of God, " in whom it hath pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell," (Coloss. i. 1 9), that "out of his fulness we might receive, and grace for grace," (John i. 16). Paul tells us, that the manna of which the Israelites ate in the wilderness was to them a type and lively symbol of "the bread of life," (1 Cor. x. 3), "They did all eat the same spiritual meat," i.e., meat which was intended not only to support their natural lives, but to point them to Him who was the life of their souls. Now, Clement of Alexandria, to whom we are largely indebted for all the discoveries that, in modern times, have been made in Egypt, expressly assures us, that, "in their hidden character, the enigmas of ...