A Key to the Prophecies of the Old & New Testaments; Which Are Not Yet Accomplished Containing, I. Rules for Their Arrangement. II. Observations on (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1802 Excerpt: ... A KEY TO THE PROPHECIES, WHICH ARE NOT YET ACCOMPLISHED. PART III. The Events foretold in them. WOW CHAP. I. The present State of the World and the Church described in the Prophecies. BEFORE I proceed to future events, it may not be improper to state the view given in the prophecies of this period in which we live. Such a view is necessary to trace the progress of vents, events, by hewing the links which, in the chain of Providence, connect the present with future times. Besides, if the view given of the Church and i he World agrees with their state and condition in our times, this coincidence affords the strongest evidence thatjhe prophecies which regard future times, shall be likewise accomplished in their season. - ." v We are now in the year 1038 considerably advanced, in the perjodjof, i: i26q years, plotted to the reign of Antichrist. Now, the remarkable circumstances of this period are the following: SECTION I. The Ottoman Empire. The plague of the sixth trumpet coincides with the latter part of this periods and continues to the conclusion of it, Rev. ix. 13.--21. " And "the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice "from the four horns of the golden altar which "is before God, faying to the, sixth angel w.hich u had the trumpet, Loose the.four angels which "are bound in the great river Euphrates. And "the four angels were loosed, which were pre"pared for a hour, and a day, and a month, "and a year, for to flay the third part of men., And the number of the army of the horsemen were were two hundred thousand thousand: And I heard the number of them. And thus I "saw the horses in the vision, and them that "fat on them, having breast-plates of sire, and M of jacinth and brimstone; and the heads of "the horses were as the heads of lions; and e out...