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partially enlightened_ The same also is done by obliging the common people to the worship of images & relics to pray in an unknown tongue, & believe their mock miracles- Where ever these things have been practiced it is night indeed, & the gloom has spread in a measure over all the civilized world- & brought darkness upon Christs Kingdom._ Hypocritical persons likewise, who are mingled among the body of Christ members are always false friends & bring a cloud of evils upon the church. They cannot be brought to see or practice Christs rules but they never felt them: they manifest their hypocrisy more or less to every one, but think, & hereby bring a cloud of disgrace, & contempt on the whole body- The tares have always been mingled with the wheat: Satan always took care to sow them; and Christ says let both grow together till the harvest: & then he will separate them & cast the tares into the fire: but the wheat he will gather into his barn. The tares are sometimes so thick as