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From Meditations on the Past, Present, and Future, by G. M. Mangold.
To those houses were the priests of the high places appointed, to assist the
people in their worship, after an outward prescribed form, and for money,
without being of the true order of the priesthood of God’s children, who
received their anointing from the Holy One, by which they are instructed and led
into all truth; and those who were enrolled and received their ordination as
priests by the mark of the beast, adopted the name of clergymen or
ecclesiastics, while all others were briefly called "laymen," having no right to
sell spiritual wares or to preach.
For also this second beast was intolerant toward all otherwise minded, even as
was the first; and it applied compulsion and death unto all who would not honor
this image or refused to become a co-partner in this new church communion, as
the history of the anabaptists and many others from the Reformation forward
attests; and thus it set itself in the place of God, whom alone it behooves to
be judge over faith and conscience, and it exercised restraint of conscience as
truly antichristian, for which cause it shall be cast into the lake of fire,
along with the first beast, on the day of the advent of the Lord, the only and
righteous judge. Through this restraint of faith and conscience it forced all to
take a mark unto themselves, either on their forehead or their hand, large and
small, the infants by enforced baptism and adults by their obligations toward
the ritual communion in confirmation and all other benedictions of the church,
also rich and poor, bond or free, without distinction, in that all were coerced
into the church government, united and obligated by oath.
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To those houses were the priests of the high places appointed, to assist the
people in their worship, after an outward prescribed form, and for money,
without being of the true order of the priesthood of God’s children, who
received their anointing from the Holy One, by which they are instructed and led
into all truth; and those who were enrolled and received their ordination as
priests by the mark of the beast, adopted the name of clergymen or
ecclesiastics, while all others were briefly called "laymen," having no right to
sell spiritual wares or to preach.
For also this second beast was intolerant toward all otherwise minded, even as
was the first; and it applied compulsion and death unto all who would not honor
this image or refused to become a co-partner in this new church communion, as
the history of the anabaptists and many others from the Reformation forward
attests; and thus it set itself in the place of God, whom alone it behooves to
be judge over faith and conscience, and it exercised restraint of conscience as
truly antichristian, for which cause it shall be cast into the lake of fire,
along with the first beast, on the day of the advent of the Lord, the only and
righteous judge. Through this restraint of faith and conscience it forced all to
take a mark unto themselves, either on their forehead or their hand, large and
small, the infants by enforced baptism and adults by their obligations toward
the ritual communion in confirmation and all other benedictions of the church,
also rich and poor, bond or free, without distinction, in that all were coerced
into the church government, united and obligated by oath.