iah:
"Wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full
of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance
there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate
houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces," Isa. 13:21, 22. In like
manner the apocalyptic Babylon, after her fall, and the withdrawal of
Protestants from her communion, was to become the receptacle of
corresponding spirits. Her members were to be more impious than before,
and were to adhere more closely than ever to her idolatrous practices. The
contrast between these and true Christians would also be more apparent
from the separation which succeeds her fall, in obedience to:

The Voice From Heaven.

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,
my people, that ye partake not of her sins, and that ye receive
not of her plagues, for her sins have reached to heaven, and God
hath remembered her iniquities! Reward her even as she rendered to
you, and double to her according to her works, in the cup which
she hath poured out, pour out double to her. By as much as she
hath glorified herself, and lived luxuriously, so much torment and
mourning give her; for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and
am not a widow, and shall see no mourning. On this account, her
plagues will come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and
she will be burned up with fire; for strong is the Lord God, who
judgeth her."--Rev. 18:4-8.

So long as the true character of the apostate church was unperceived, she
would contain many good, as well as a multitude of bad members. The voice
from heaven, indicates an epoch when there should be a widely extended and
marked separation between these two classes. Till the time of that
separation should be indicated, the children of God would be justified in
continuing members of her communion; but not subsequently. The condition
of Babylon, at the time of her fall, indicates that the separation must
take place in near connection with that event; and the cry must
synchronize with that of the third angel in Rev. 14:9,--which symbolized a
body of men who should insist on such a separation from the Papacy as that
here symbolized.

After the discovery that the church of Rome was the Babylon of the
Apocalypse, the reformers began to call on the people of God to desert her
communion; and the formation of the re