Zions Works Author:John Ward 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: PRIESTCRAFT AND ITS DELUSIONS. Showing how God has made his 'Blameless Bishop' according to the prophecy by Paul (l Tim. iii. 2); and that all subordinate ' P... more »riests' are no longer needed on the earth. Zecb. ii. 13., and the whole of the 3rd chapter fully explained, to the end.—The ' filthy garments,' patching the old; the ' new piece.'— Filthiness, according to the Scriptures.—The false and true 'Church.' —The 'Bishop's' qualifications.—Naming of the cattle by Adam.— The ' fair Gift of God.'—Spiritual death, first and second state.— Battle-axe of God.—' Uniting of the stones'; ' no more sea'; ' time no longer.'—The 'seven' eyes.—Parable of the Rabbins.—'David dancing before the Ark'; loss of the privy-member.—Jacob's dream.— 'Iniquity of the Bible in the letter ; problems for the ' wise ' of the world.—Quarrelling stones.—Parable of the 'barren fig tree.'—The ass and colt.—' Neighbours.'—Curse turned into blessing; trespasses forgiven.—The faithful ' testimony of Jesus.'—End Of Priestcraft. ANSWER TO MR HOWITT'S BOOK, 'THE HISTORY OF PRIESTCRAFT.' I AM very glad to see men at last, begin to be disgusted with a System of Imposition that has been practised upon them for so many ages, and under the cruelty and tyranny of which all the intelligent beings of the earth have groaned; —I mean Priestcraft, that most abominable system of fraud and of every deadly evil. I rejoice to find that men of talent are taking up their pens against it, and boldly exposing its horrible form before all men ; this is very good as far as it goes, and I am sure that it is God that is raising up the spirit in good-meaning VOL. Ill 113 H men, because we know well that the time is come when the world shall be rid of that tyranny, so destructive of the peace of mankind. But I am sorry ...« less