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Eureka AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE |
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Chapter 18 8. The Shipslading
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The shipslading of a vessel is its cargo, which represents the
revenues of the merchants, who own, or charter, or use, the
ship. The Roman Ship has for many ages been freighted with
wares, which have, through the trading of its importers, brought
back to the State "lading of gold, and of silver, and
of precious stones, and of pearl, and of fine linen, and of
purple, and of silk, and of scarlet; and of all thyme wood,
and every ivory utensil, and every article of most precious
wood, and of brass, and of iron, and of marble; and cinnamon,
and odors, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil,
and fine flour, and grain, and cattle, and sheep, and horses,
and of carriages, and of bodies, and souls of men". Hence
these things come to represent the spiritual wares, which
cause the revenues to flow in from all countries into the
treasury of the Church; such, for instance, as masses for
the dead, absolution for the living, indulgences for sin,
consecrations of cemeteries, churches, sermonizings, reading
Latin prayers, ordaining priests, consecrating bishops, sprinkling
babies with "holy water," and putting the sign of
the cross upon their foreheads, marriages, burials, canonization
of saints, lying wonders, and so forth. These belong to the
invoice of wares which are the stock in trade of the soul
and body merchants of the Great Harlot and her Daughters and
Abominations of the Babylonian World. All the State and Nonconformist
Churches of Europe and America deal more or less extensively
in the invoice. They do not all keep the same assortment of
wares; but they will be found to deal in some of the articles
enumerated as the lading of the old Ship Babylon, whereby
they are proved to belong to the "shipmasters, ships'
companies, sailors, and traders upon the sea," who bewail,
and lament the fall of their harlot-mother, "because
no one buyeth their shipslading any more" - the clergy-craft
is played out, hireling priests and parsons, alias "wolves
in sheep's clothing," become a worthless and contemptible
drug, esteemed by none. No man or woman will any longer give "carnal
things" in exchange for their twaddling conceits, and
religious consecrations, and consolations, which they now
style their 'spiritual things Protestantism, in all its harlots
and abominations, will be as defunct as its Romish-Mother.
It will translate no more murderers from the scaffold, to "kingdoms
beyond the bounds of time and space;" it will give no
thieves and prostitutes the "consolations of religion" in
the article of death; it will regenerate no more puling unconscious
babes with prevenient or "subvenient," grace; it
will consecrate no more Saint Bazaars (churches) and cemeteries
for the dead it will no more befuddle the brains of silly
women, and sillier men with its pulpit and vapourous inanities
All this foolery, paid for in gold and silver fine flour grain
cattle sheep," and so forth, in salaries tithes and church
rates will be abolish ed by YAHWEH ELOHIM, who will permit
no more lies to be preached in His name by Latin, Protestant,
or Greek (Zech. 13:2,3,4). All these things will be substituted
by the knowledge of His glory by which the nations of the
earth shall be illuminated. They will then come to Him from
the ends of the earth, and declare their conviction, that
their Catholic and Protestant fathers "inherited lies,
and things wherein there is no profit" (Jer. 16:19).
These unprofitable and lying vanities, sold to them at an
enormous price by spiritual impostors, for the cure of their
souls, they will indignantly repudiate. The veil which is
now spread over all nations being destroyed (Isa. 25:7), they
will look back with astonishment upon their present degradation
and insanity. Freed from existing spiritual slavery, they
will rejoice in the liberty of the Truth, and wisely resolve
to walk no more after the imagination of an evil heart (Jer.
3:17); but to walk in the paths of Yahweh the Elohim of Jacob
(Isa. 2:3):who will turn to them a pure language, that they
may all call upon the Name of Yahweh, to serve Him with one
consent (Zeph. 3:9).
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