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America in Prophecy by Ellen White [Modern Version]
America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished. America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished.
His ways made known or to be made known to them." --J. Brown, The Pilgrim Fathers, page 74. Here was the true spirit of reform, the vital principle of Protestantism. It was with this purpose that the Pilgrims departed from Holland to find a home in the New World. John Robinson, their pastor, who was providentially prevented from accompanying them, in his farewell address to the exiles said: "Brethren, we are now erelong to part asunder, and the Lord knoweth whether I shall live ever to see your faces more. But whether the Lord hath appointed it or not, I charge you before God and His blessed angels to follow me no farther than I have followed Christ. If God should reveal anything to you by any other instrument of His, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth of my ministry; for I am very confident the Lord hath more truth and light yet to break forth out of His holy word."--Martyn, vol. 5, p. 70. "For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present no farther than the instruments of their reformation. The Lutherans cannot be drawn to go beyond what Luther saw; . . . and the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God, who yet saw not all things. This is a misery much to be lamented; for though they were burning and shining lights in their time, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received."--D. Neal, History of the Puritans, vol. 1, p. 269. "Remember your church covenant, in which you have agreed to walk in all the ways of the Lord, made or to be made known unto you. Remember your promise and covenant with God and with one another, to receive whatever light and truth shall be made known to you from His written word; but withal, take heed, I beseech you, what you receive for truth, and compare it and weigh it with other scriptures of truth before you accept it; for it is not possible the Christian world should come so lately out of such thick antichristian darkness, and that full perfection of knowledge should break forth at once."--Martyn, vol. 5, pp. 70, 71. It was the desire for liberty of conscience that inspired the Pilgrims to brave the perils of the long journey across the sea, to endure the hardships and dangers of the wilderness, and with God's blessing to lay, on the shores of America, the foundation of a mighty nation. Yet honest and Godfearing as they were, the Pilgrims did not yet comprehend the great 215
principle of religious liberty. The freedom which they sacrificed so much to secure for themselves, they were not equally ready to grant to others. "Very few, even of the foremost thinkers and moralists of the seventeenth century, had any just conception of that grand principle, the outgrowth of the New Testament, which acknowledges God as the sole judge of human faith."-- Ibid., vol. 5, p. 297. The doctrine that God has committed to the church the right to control the conscience, and to define and punish heresy, is one of the most deeply rooted of papal errors. While the Reformers rejected the creed of Rome, they were not entirely free from her spirit of intolerance. The dense darkness in which, through the long ages of her rule, popery had enveloped all Christendom, had not even yet been wholly dissipated. Said one of the leading ministers in the colony of Massachusetts Bay: "It was toleration that made the world antichristian; and the church never took harm by the punishment of heretics."-- Ibid., vol. 5, p. 335. The regulation was adopted by the colonists that only church members should have a voice in the civil government. A kind of state church was formed, all the people being required to contribute to the support of the clergy, and the magistrates being authorized to suppress heresy. Thus the secular power was in the hands of the church. It was not long before these measures led to the inevitable result --persecution. Eleven years after the planting of the first colony, Roger Williams came to the New World. Like the early Pilgrims he came to enjoy religious freedom; but, unlike them, he saw - -what so few in his time had yet seen--that this freedom was the inalienable right of all, whatever might be their creed. He was an earnest seeker for truth, with Robinson holding it impossible that all the light from God's word had yet been received. Williams "was the first person in modern Christendom to establish civil government on the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, the equality of opinions before the law."--Bancroft, pt. 1, ch. 15, par. 16. He declared it to be the duty of the magistrate to restrain crime, but never to control the conscience. "The public or the magistrates may decide," he said, "what is due from man to man; but when they attempt to prescribe a man's duties to God, they are out of place, and there can be no safety; for it is clear that if the magistrates has the power, he may decree one set of opinions or beliefs today and another tomorrow; as has been done in England by different kings and queens, and by different popes 216
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His ways made known or to be made known to them." --J. Brown, The Pilgrim Fathers, page<br />
74. Here was the true spirit of reform, the vital pr<strong>in</strong>ciple of Protestantism. It was with this<br />
purpose that the Pilgrims departed from Holland to f<strong>in</strong>d a home <strong>in</strong> the New World. John<br />
Rob<strong>in</strong>son, their pastor, who was providentially prevented from accompany<strong>in</strong>g them, <strong>in</strong> his<br />
farewell address to the exiles said:<br />
"Brethren, we are now erelong to part asunder, and the Lord knoweth whether I shall<br />
live ever to see your faces more. But whether the Lord hath appo<strong>in</strong>ted it or not, I charge you<br />
before God and His blessed angels to follow me no farther than I have followed Christ. If God<br />
should reveal anyth<strong>in</strong>g to you <strong>by</strong> any other <strong>in</strong>strument of His, be as ready to receive it as ever<br />
you were to receive any truth of my m<strong>in</strong>istry; for I am very confident the Lord hath more truth<br />
and light yet to break forth out of His holy word."--Martyn, vol. 5, p. 70.<br />
"For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who<br />
are come to a period <strong>in</strong> religion, and will go at present no farther than the <strong>in</strong>struments of their<br />
reformation. The Lutherans cannot be drawn to go beyond what Luther saw; . . . and the<br />
Calv<strong>in</strong>ists, you see, stick fast where they were left <strong>by</strong> that great man of God, who yet saw not<br />
all th<strong>in</strong>gs. This is a misery much to be lamented; for though they were burn<strong>in</strong>g and sh<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />
lights <strong>in</strong> their time, yet they penetrated not <strong>in</strong>to the whole counsel of God, but were they now<br />
liv<strong>in</strong>g, would be as will<strong>in</strong>g to embrace further light as that which they first received."--D. Neal,<br />
History of the Puritans, vol. 1, p. 269.<br />
"Remember your church covenant, <strong>in</strong> which you have agreed to walk <strong>in</strong> all the ways of<br />
the Lord, made or to be made known unto you. Remember your promise and covenant with<br />
God and with one another, to receive whatever light and truth shall be made known to you<br />
from His written word; but withal, take heed, I beseech you, what you receive for truth, and<br />
compare it and weigh it with other scriptures of truth before you accept it; for it is not possible<br />
the Christian world should come so lately out of such thick antichristian darkness, and that<br />
full perfection of knowledge should break forth at once."--Martyn, vol. 5, pp. 70, 71.<br />
It was the desire for liberty of conscience that <strong>in</strong>spired the Pilgrims to brave the perils<br />
of the long journey across the sea, to endure the hardships and dangers of the wilderness,<br />
and with God's bless<strong>in</strong>g to lay, on the shores of <strong>America</strong>, the foundation of a mighty nation.<br />
Yet honest and Godfear<strong>in</strong>g as they were, the Pilgrims did not yet comprehend the great<br />
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