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Excerpt from The Pope, the Prince, the People, or Christian Civilization, Ancient and Modern: With a Postscript on the Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Thousand of Mr. Gladstone's "Expostulation"
These are very general outlines but they are admitted by universal Christian consent, and by the self-same consent is it admitted that the Divine Messiah established His Church, which was to preach the Word of Life to every creature, and to perpetuate the heavenly work which He had initiated.
Before developing our argument, we may be permitted to take a retrospective glance at the state of the world, immediately anterior to the advent of the Messiah, and thus shall we be better able to appreciate the Divine light, which came down from heaven to illumine the earth for all coming time.
Forty hundred years had been permitted to elapse after the fall of man from his high estate, before the promise made at the gates of Eden saw its fulfilment in the stable of Bethlehem. This long delay was not without design. It was intended to expose the miseries which followed, as well as impress upon mankind what the prophet describes as malum et amarum, What an evil and a bitter thing it is to offend the Lord God.
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