A Brief Explication of the Principal Prophecies of Daniel and John, as They Regard the Church of God

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Excerpt from A Brief Explication of the Principal Prophecies of Daniel and John, as They Regard the Church of God: To Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing an Inquiry Into the Propriety of Using an Evangelical Psalmody in the Worship of God As it is the duty of preachers of the gospel and ministers of the word, to furnish their minds as far as they can, with the whole scheme of divine revelation - the prophetical, as well as the doctrinal and preceptive parts - we have accordingly made the prophecies an occasional part of our reading and studies, for a number of years. In order to this, we have read and compared not only the ancient writers on this subject, as Mede, Lowman, Newtown, &c., but the modern writers to which we had access. And not one of them but fully satisfied our mind in regard to the fulfilment of some of the prophecies, and thereby furnishing an additional proof, that the Old and New Testaments are a divine revelation, yet we saw, or thought we saw, some defect in their several schemes of interpretation. And to encourage young ministers to an occasional study of this highly interesting subject, we would remark, that what appeared dark, defective, or inconclusive in one writer, was elucidated and made satisfactory by another. As will be seen in the sequel, we put together the interpretations of different important prophecies by different writers, which were deemed clear and correct, and found that, if not altogether, they nearly agreed. And not only so, but they quadrated with the prophetic numbers of both Daniel and John, and thus a new scheme of interpretation in some instances was formed, and which the reader will find in the following pages, with some new interpretations of our own. We are far from supposing that our views on this subject are certainly correct, or beyond the reach of objection or criticism, but we thought that they are less liable to objection than any system which we have perused, else, we would not have obtruded them on the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.