The Complete Works of John M. Mason, D.D., ed. Ebenezer Mason, vol. III (New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849), Sermon VII, "Messiah's Throne" (Heb. 1:8), pp. 259-260

The long existence of the Christian church would be pronounced, upon common principles of reasoning impossible. She finds in every man a natural and inveterate enemy. To encounter and overcome the unanimous hostility of…