Babylon and Infidelity Foredoomed of God; A Discourse on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1828. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... succession, which being compared with the historical events that have happened, will bring us down to the present time, and enable us to know both where we stand, and for what we are next to be prepared in the execution of the prophetic purposes of God. Now the question is, which portion of the Revelation applies to this period of judgment? that we may know to take it up, and compare it with the event. It is more than a century since the students of this divine yet difficult book discovered that, as soon as the 1260 years were accomplished, the seven last vials would begin to be poured out; in which opinion, they have been joined by almost all the systematic interpreters of prophecy who have written since. But, as many who hear me are, it is probable, unacquainted with their arguments and conclusions, and many altogether ignorant of the structure of this wonderful book, and not a few have given up the study of it in utter despair, I hold it good to show the scheme, and to follow out the continuity of it, in order that I may not be accused of any self-willedness of interpretation, but manifest clearly which part of it has reference to the judgments, and make use of it accordingly. And, for the sake of the continuity of the discourse, I shall throw this into the form of a digression. DIGRESSION: Containing the scheme and machinery of the Apocalypse, with a continuous line of that prophecy down to the beginning of the judgments upon the papacy. The book of the Revelations, to which we are now to go for the materials of our discourse, is to be studied first in its plan or machinery, and afterward in its fulfilment: and the name of Joseph Mede were never to be forgotten in Theology, had he done no more than insist that the plan upon which the book was compos...