“This happy period I never expect to see:  but known unto the Lord only are all things.  I know that such a time will be; for we are assured by the angel, these are the true sayings of God:  and I also believe that it will take place within two centuries from this time.  But oh! how corrupt doth the world now appear to me....  Help me, O Lord, I pray thee, to do thy will.

“Whenever any body of people come into notice, establish their rules and institutions, and become a respectable sect, they are the people of God then only in name; they cease to have the nature any longer; and whoever unites himself to the same, constitutes himself one of the beast’s party, and so far as his influence extends, he helps to establish the kingdom of Antichrist in the earth.  This is clear from the prophecies of the Revelation, and it will answer no purpose to take offense when the truth is spoken.  These things will, moreover, sooner or later be declared with great plainness by some one; and then will the man of sin put forth all his strength; then will persecution come, and the beast muster his armies to defend himself and to destroy the assailants, but in vain; for however few their number may be at first, and however furious the battle may rage against them, they are destined to conquer.  And herein the words of Christ will fitly apply, ’Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.’” P. 313.

Speaking of sectarianism, he says further:  “The same round of things will continue until the evil is remedied....  When this shall take place, time only can determine with certainty.  It will probably commence slowly, and not come with any great outward observation.  Few will at first see or embrace the way, being strange to them, and appearing on account of their prejudices, and the way they have been taught by the false prophet, to be wrong and improper:  moreover, being opposed to all others, they will have all others to oppose them.  But though they are despised and hated, and few in number, the Lord is with them.”  Pp. 322, 323.

On Rev. 16:13, 14:  “I have already delivered my views with respect to these unclean spirits ... and it is not necessary to say much here upon the subject; only I would just observe, that this will be a time of greater trial to Christians in general, and in a time in which more will be deprived of every particle of true religion through the influence of false ministers belonging to the different societies in Christendom, than any that has ever yet been in the world.  But while they are making these great exertions, they are only preparing themselves and their deluded votaries for a more awful and complete destruction.  For God Almighty is against them, and they against Him; though they will know it not, but think perhaps all the while they are his peculiar favorites, and that they are employed in maintaining his cause, like the Jews before them, when it is only their own cause and men’s traditions.”  P. 338.