CONTAINING THE PROPHECIES OF THE SECOND ADVENT, IN THE FIRST

AGES OF THE WORLD, AND IN THE PSALMS OF DAVID.

INTRODUCTION

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CHAPTER THE FIRST.

THE ORACLES DELIVERED IN THE PATRIARCHAL AGE.

SECT. I. Respecting the Woman's Seed ........

II. The Prophecy of Enoch

III. Job's Faith in the Redeemer

SECT. I. The Song of Moses on the miraculous Passage

of the Red Sea ...

II. Moses' Song of Remembrance, Deut. xxxii.....

III. His Introduction to the Blessing of the Twelve

Tribes

IV. The Prophecies of Balaam.

CHAPTER THE FOURTH.

PROPHECIES OF THE ERA OF DAVID.

Introduction•.

SECT. I. Hannah's Thanksgiving

II. Extracts from the Psalms

III. 2 Sam. viii. and 1 Chron. xvii., with the Last

Words of David.

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PART THE SECOND.

PREDICTIONS OF THE SECOND ADVENT IN THE WRITINGS OF THE

CHAPTER THE FIFTH.

THE PROPHETS OF THE ERA OF THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY.

XIV. The future Division of the Holy Land.

XV. The Waters from the Sanctuary...

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Gog and Magog, xxxviii., &c. ........ 535

XII. General Remarks on the Concluding Chapters

of Ezekiel......

XIII. The Vision of the Temple, lx., &c.

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XVI. Concluding Remarks on the Last Chapters of

Ezekiel......

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THE

SECOND ADVENT, &c.

INTRODUCTION.

THE method proposed in conducting the following inquiry concerning the second coming of Christ, is to consult the holy Scriptures in chronological order. Our subject will thus rise upon us with the same advances of light which have marked its gradual revelation to mankind: we shall be able also to trace the connexion of the sacred oracles one with another; and, comparing the language of each prediction with preceding revelations on the same subject, shall aim at making prophecy, as much as possible, its own interpreter.

In our chronological survey, the prophecies relating to a second advent of the great Redeemer may be divided into three parts. PART THE FIRST will contain the oracles delivered in the more ancient ages of the world, and in the age of David. PART THE SECOND will contain such as are found in the writings of those em