BS A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE PROPHECIES, WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR INTERPRETATION AND FULFILMENT, AND TO PERSONAL EDIFICATION. BY THE REV. EDWARD BICKERSTETH, RECTOR OF WATTON, HERTS. “We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take FROM THE SIXTH LONDON EDITION, ENLARGED. PHILADELPHIA: ORRIN ROGERS, 67 SOUTH SECOND STREET. E. G. Dorsey, Printer. 1841. PAGE. CHAP. I. General Observations, II. Practical Rules and Cautions, III. The First Coming of Christ, IV. General application of Promises in the Prophecies, V. The Second Coming of Christ, VI. The Period of the Second Coming, VII. The Literal Interpretation of Prophecies, VIII. Prophecies respecting the Jews, IX. Countries connected with the Jews, XII. The Scriptural meaning of Time, XIII. Chronological Prophecies, XIV. Varied Interpretations of Prophecy, XV. Judgments connected with the Coming of Christ, XVI. The Harvest of the Church, I. Suggested Plan and Axioms for the Interpretation of the VII. The consuming of Popery, and its boastfulness, VIII. Drying up of the Euphrates, A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE PROPHECIES. CHAPTER I. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. a Next to the moral and experimental evidence of God's word, the evidence of prophecy is, of all others, the most convincing, satisfactory, and even overwhelming, to a wise, learned, and candid mind. There is such an accumulation of proof upon proof in a vast multitude of improbabilities, there is such a chain of evidence for thousands of years, there is such an impossibility in the very nature of things of any forgery; there is such a growing strength in the evidence, from age to age, to our own times, there is such rich spiritual use in the prophecies themselves, that the moral conviction is conclusive; we cannot but say, when the subject has been calmly and completely investigated, the finger of God is visible in this—it is his own word. [2] And this evidence, arising from the past and the present fulfilment of prophecy, is connected with the most elevating and comforting hopes as to all that is to come; the great things that most concern us as individual believers, and that most concern the church of Christ, are set before us with the distinctness of history, leading us to the full hope of the richest and most enduring blessedness. The past completion, also, of prophecy furnishes us with the best rules for understanding what is yet unfulfilled. If it be said, there are serious differences among Christian interpreters; these, though stumbling to a beginner, are not such as at all materially to weaken our conclusions. The differences are rather, as to the modes or time in which the result shall be accomplished, and the exact VOL. II.51 |
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