1st and 2nd Message to the Philadelphian Society (1696) - Page 10

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To the Reader.

...have need of nothing. This is the foundation and cornerstone of Babylon In this context, "Babylon" refers to a state of spiritual confusion or a corrupt religious system. and of the confusion of the sects; which, according to the sentence of the Righteous Judge God, must be all crumbled and moldered to pieces. This must happen so that out of this chaos a beautiful fabric original: "Fabrick"; meaning a building or structure may arise, duly joined together, cemented, and compacted by that which every joint supplies.