Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... THE WORDS AND BOOK CLOSED AND SEALED. Dan. xii. 4: " But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." It is often brought as an objection to the advocacy of the views here presented, that "others have written on the subject, and they have discovered nothing of which you speak. If these things are so, why did they not find it out?" Has any new revelation been made to you, that you know so much more than the wise and good who have gone before you?" To this it is replied, No; I do not profess any new revelation on the subject. And as an explanation of the reason why " the wise and good" have not discovered these things, I will direct the inquirer to the text quoted above. The prophecy was, by divine command, closed and sealed, even to the time of the end. How then could the wisest or best of men understand what God had closed and sealed ? But I have proved that the time of the end has come, and has continued from 1798 to the present time. And are we not authorized to look for an increase "of knowledge at the time of the end ? Most certainly. And we have it: for the last forty years there has been more said and written on the prophecies, and more light reflected on them, than for centuries before. And light continues to increase. And those who can be persuaded to give up the old tradition of a temporal millennium, and search the Bible for themselves, see the light. But how can those " believe who seek honor one of another, and not that honor which comes from God ?" But the seal is now evidently broken; and many run to and fro; and knowledge on this and all other subjects is increased. Verses 5--7. A new scene is presented, and two celestial...
