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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
BOOK I.
PRELIMINARY MATTER. p. 1.
CHAPTER I.
Respecting the figurative and symbolical language of pro-
phecy p. 3.
The origin of the symbolical language of prophecy. p. 3.
I. Such phraseology, as is constructed on abstract ideas, is
purely metaphorical. p. 15.
8. The resurrection of the dead. p. 16.
9. The lying unburied for a short time. p. 16.
10. The being not only dead, but buried. p. 17.
11. The exposure of dry bones, from which all the flesh
is wasted away. p. 17.
12. Ascension to heaven. p. 17.
13. The day of judgment and the coming of the Lord in
glory. p. 17.
14. Blasphemy. p. 17.
15. Hatred succeeding to love. p. 17.
16. Mensuration. p. 17.
17. Sealing or setting a mark upon a person. p. 18.
18. Devouring the flesh of a person. p. 18.
19. Eating a prophecy. p. 18.
20. Sealing up a prophecy. p. 18.
II. But, when prophetic phraseology is constructed on palpable
symbols, those symbols typify at once things tempo-
ral and things spiritual, provided the matters thus
typified have a mutual relation. Symbols of this
description may be arranged in various classes, gene-
rically and specifically. p. 18.
1. The natural world. p. 19.
(1.) The natural world, viewed temporally, includes
the three grand divisions of the heaven, the
earth, and the waters. p. 19.
(2.) The natural world, viewed spiritually, still in-
cludes the same three divisions of the heaven,
the earth, and the waters. p. 23.
2. A beast of prey. p. 25.
(1.) A beast of prey, temporally considered, with its
dependent symbols. p. 25.
(2.) A beast of prey, spiritually or ecclesiastically con-
sidered, with its dependent symbols. p. 27.
3. A beast of any other description. p. 28.
4. A city. p. 29.
(1.) The great city of the Apocalypse with its subor-
dinate symbols. p. 29.
(2.) The holy city of the Apocalypse with its subordi-
nate symbols. p. 33.
5. Symbols which cannot be regularly classed. p. 35.
(1.) A woman with her dependent symbols. p. 35.
(2.) A garden with its dependent symbols. p. 36.
(3.) A vine with its dependent symbols. p. 36.
Respecting the proper mode of computing the prophetic num-
bers of Daniel and St. John. p. 39.
Let the right mode of computing one prophetic number be esta-
blished, and the right mode of computing all the others
will be equally established. p. 39.
I. The latter 1260 days are not 1260 natural days, but 1260
years of some description or other. p. 44.
1. Proved from analogical homogeneity. p. 44.
2. Proved by the express warrant of Scripture. p. 47.
3. Proved from the nature of the circumstances ascribed
to the period. p. 47.
4. Proved from the specification of the time, about
which the period in question must have commenced.
p. 50.
II. The latter 1260 days are 1260 natural or solar years. p. 52.
1. The argument to prove, that they are years of only
360 days each, shewn to be inconclusive. p. 54.
2. The argument to prove, that they are natural solar
years, admitted as conclusive. p. 55.
III. The general result, therefore, is, that each prophetic day,
in the numbers of Daniel and St. John, is equal to a
natural or solar year. p. 58.
CHAPTER III.
Respecting the principal events and characters comprehended
within the great period of seven prophetic times, and
especially within the latter half of that period or the
three times and a half mentioned by Daniel and St.
John. p. 61.
The sacred calendar of prophecy comprehends seven prophetic
times or the duplicate of three times and a half: and
these seven times are the times of the Gentiles or the times
of the four great Gentile Empires. Now they must have
commenced, at some point between the years before
Christ 658 and 646. Hence they will expire, at some
point between the years after Christ 1863 and 1875: and
hence they will be bipartited, at some point between the
years after Christ 603 and 615. p. 61.
I. The actors and events comprehended within the first
moiety of the seven times, as they are set forth in his-
tory. p. 66.
II. The actors and events comprehended within the second
moiety of the seven times, as they are set forth in
history. p. 68.
1. The Papacy in the West. p. 68.
2. Mohammedism in the East. p. 72.
3. Infidelity as specially developed in the spirit of the
French Revolution. p. 74.
III. The principal actors and events, which history testifies to
be comprehended within the period of the seven
times, must inevitably be the subjects of any pro-
phecy which respects that period. p. 75.
CHAPTER IV.
Respecting the character and revelation of the man of sin, and
the nature of the Apostasy out of which he arises and
over which he presides. p. 77...
The two predictions of St. Paul, relative to the man of sin and
the great Apostasy, stand immediately connected with the
prophecies of Daniel and St. John. p. 77.
I. The prophecy relative to the man of sin. p. 79.
1. Both Papists and Protestants agree with the early
Fathers, that the man of sin must be identified,
with the little horn of Daniel's fourth wild-beast,
and with the two-horned wild-beast, and the false
prophet and the harlot of the Apocalypse; how-
ever they may differ in the application of the cha-
P. 81.
racter.
2. The true application of the man of sin has been so
fully established, that it is superfluous to go over
the ground afresh: but the chronological interpre-
tation of the prophecy has not been quite so well
conducted; though, without a just chronological
arrangement, it will be impossible to make the pre-
diction of the man of sin to quadrate with the pre-
diction of the little horn. St. Paul specifies the
precise time of the revelation of the man of sin to
be marked by the removal of an impediment;
which impediment he had verbally declared to the
Thessalonians. p. 86.
(1.) The unanimous persuasion, that the verbally de-
clared impediment was the Roman Empire,
led to the notion, that the man of sin would
not be revealed until immediately before the
end of the world: but, in this, the Fathers
reasoned inconclusively. p. 87.
(2.) The tradition, as managed by Mede and Newton