ON

PROPHECY,

IN WHICH ARE CONSIDERED

ITS STRUCTURE, USE, AND INSPIRATION;

BEING

THE SUBSTANCE

OF

TWELVE SERMONS

PREACHED IN THE CHAPEL OF LINCOLN'S INN,

IN THE LECTURE FOUNDED BY

THE RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM WARBURTON,

BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.

BY JOHN DAVISON, B. D.

LATE FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD.

Οὐ γὰρ ὑπ ̓ ἐμοῦ συνεσκευασμένοι εἰσὶν οἱ λόγοι, οὐδὲ τέχνῃ ἀνθρω-
πίνῃ κεκαλλωπισμένοι· ἀλλὰ τούτους Δαβὶδ μὲν ἔψαλλεν, Ησαΐας
δὲ εὐηγ[ελίζετο, Ζαχαρίας δὲ ἐκήρυξε, Μωύσης δὲ ἀνέγραψεν.
JUSTIN MARTYR, p. 194.

SECOND EDITION.

DIVINITY SCHOOL

LIBRARY.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

MDCCCXXV.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WILLIAM, EARL OF MANSFIELD,

AND

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

RICHARD RYDER, M. P.

(ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL),

TRUSTEES OF THE LECTURE FOUNDED BY BISHOP

WARBURTON,

THESE DISCOURSES

ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY THEIR OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.