But when and where this holy order and diligent watch was intermitted, neglected, violated. Antichrist that man of sin corrupted and altered the holy ordinances, offices, and administrations of the church brought in and erected a strange new forged ministry, liturgy and government and the nations kingdoms and inhabitants of the earth, were made drunken with this cup of fornications and abominations, and all people enforced to receive the beast’s mark and worship his image and so brought into confusion and babylonish bondage.¹

1. Psalm 74; Isaiah 14:13–14; Daniel 7:25; 8:10–12; 11:31; 2 Thessalonians 2:3–4, 9–12; 1 Timothy 4:1–2; 1 John 2:18, 22; 4:3; Revelation 9; 13; 17; 18 ↩︎