A General and Connected View of the Prophecies Relating to the Times of the Gentiles, Delivered by Our Blessed Saviour, the Prophet Daniel, and the Apostles Paul and John (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. 1795. Excerpt: ... Dragon was to give the beast "his "power, and his feat, and great author." thority." After what manner this authority should be employed is the next particular of the evangelist's prediction: or, in other words, he next proceeds to draw the character of the potentate that should arise, The terms in which h had been characterized by Daniel and St. Paul, I have before noticed; to these accounts. St. John adds, ('befides what has been already quoted from the thirteenth of the Revelation, ) in the fixth verse of that chapter, " and he opened ' his mouth in blasphemy against God;, r to blaspheme his name and his Taber nacle, and them that dwell in Heaven." and the woman representing the capital of his state in the seventeenth chapter is declared to be " the mother of harlots - and abominations of the earth." And to to be "drunken with the blood of the "saints, and with the blood of the Mar- ' tyrs of Jesus." Now if we call to mind the well known circumstance of Idolatry being spoken of in the holy writ under the name of fornication and abomination, three particulars of the character of the beast will appear to be foretold, Idolatry, blasphemy and tyranny. For as to his being an ecclesiastical, as well as civil power, and Rome being the feat of his government, these points are so plainly marked in the prediction, and are so evident in the Papal history, that it seems needless to dwell on them. Neither, since the existance of the others has been fully provedby my predecessor in this line; and particularly the proofs compressed in a most elegant and con. vincing manner by the learned Prelate, who now presides in the Church of Worcester, shall I notice them any further than to bring forward the testimony of my unprejudiced witness to the truth of the prop...