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Valentine M’Clutchy, The Irish Agent

CHAPTER XI
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Father M'Cabe, in consequence of Darby's conduct, and taking him as a specimen, uttered some lively prophecies, touching' the ultimate fate of the new Reformation.

He even admonished his flock against Darby:-- "I have warned you all now," he said, "and if after this I hear of a single perversion, woe be unto that pervert, for it is better for his miserable soul that he had never been born.

Is there a man here base enough to sell his birthright for a mess of Mr.Lucre's pottage?
Is there a man here, who is not too strongly imbued with a hatred of heresy, to laugh to scorn their bribes and their Bibles.

Not a man, or, if there is, let him go out from amongst us, in order that we may know him--that we may avoid his outgoings and his incomings--that we may flee from him as a pestilence--a plague--a famine.

No, there is none here so base and unprincipled as all that--and I here prophesy that from this day forth, this Reformation has got its death-blow--and that time will prove it.


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