Discourses On Prophecy

Excerpt from Discourses on Prophecy The plan of these Discourses is to treat the prophecies in accordance with the analogy of faith; and show in the prophetical records the unfoldings of the eternal purpose of God in the salvation of mankind by Jesus Christ. It is observable that those who have written on the prophecies have in general so far lost sight of their connexion with the scheme of Redemption, that one would scarcely suppose from the perusal of their works that there was any such connexion, or if any, that it was a very intimate one. Pro phecies are commonly considered as detached subjects, which, for all that appears to the contrary, might possibly have been omitted in the Divine Revelation without injury to the main design. Hence many ministers of the gospel excuse their inattention to this subject as if it were a dis tinct branch of Biblical science, unimportant to a proper understanding of Theology, and unnecessary to the qualifi cation and work of a Christian ministe And some seem to despise it, as if it were the very essence of fanaticism, and unworthy of investigation, in comparison with a sort of spiritual knowledge which they affect. It is my aim to present such a view of the prophecies, as will remove this erroneous impression, wipe off the stigma imputed to the subject, and make it not only an intggegtipg and profitable but also an indispensable study to the minister of the word of God, and'indeed to every one who wishes to understand what is the mystery Of the kingdom of God. If I fall short of this object, the failure must be attributed to the want of skill in the writer, and not to any lack of merit and import ance in the subject. 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.