...Spiritual fenfe, yet why may it not be more comprehenfive ? Again Rev. 12. i. the Church is reprefented by a Woman clothed with the Sun, having the Moon under her feet. If that was an Embleme of the Primitive Church in her State militant, what hinders but it may be applicable...

...protecting wings — in imitation of the Cherubims of glory — shadowing the Mercy Seat. Directly Directly opposite is the Chapel of the Choir, a noble...silence reigns over its vast vacuities — unbroken by distant, and solitary, footsteps, retiring for the night — the the unnoticed windows, at the approach...

...the Altar, representing the Virgin Mother— under the mistaken emblems of the Spouse of Christ—the Wonder that was seen in Heaven, a Woman clothed with...diminishes, than increases, the effect of this wonderful Edifice.—It is never more impressive than when silence reigns over its vast vacuities—unbroken...

...oppositions and difficulties, which the church endured under her ten persecutions. She is described as clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. The twelve stars so visibly allude to the doctrine of the twelve apostles, with which the church is irradiated,...

...Sit thou at my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool ;" and when the church appears as a woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. Let us remember the call given to the church on earth : " Go forth,...

...nations, being all baptized by one Spirit into one body, or church, which was glorious in that day, as a woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve, stars, and she brought forth a Man-child, who was to rule all nations,...

...twelfth chapter, represents the true church prior to the introduction of antichristian corruptions, as " clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." These corruptions originate in a third part of the stars of heaven...

...who shall rule all nations with a rod of iron. And if the kingdom of God be indeed symbolized by the woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and upon her head twelve stars, (the gospel of the kingdon, of heavenly brightness, eclipsing every other faith,...

...prophet, in the course of the supernatural revelations vouchsafed to him in his banishment, beholds a woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and her head adorned with a diadem or coronet of twelve stare. This symbolical woman is represented to...

...nations; being all baptized by one spirit into one body, or church, which was glorious in that day, as a woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: and she brought forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations ;...