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Excerpt from Brief Commentaries Upon Such Parts of the Revelation and Other Prophecies as Immediately Refer to the Present Times, Vol. 1 of 2: With the Prophetic, Or, Anticipated History of the Church of Rome; To Which Is Added, a Pill for the Infidel and Atheist
Itherto Commentators upon the apoc alypse, seem to have done more harm to the cause of Christianity than good; They have rather thrown this sacred part of the word of god, this corner'stone of the Gospel of Christ into the back ground, than brought it forward into that conspicuous point of View which its excellence and high importance 'in the great Work of Redemption manifestly require. Their method of unfolding its different subjects has been so indigested, loose, and desultory, that instead of removing the veil of allegory in which, for the most part, it was intention ally clothed by its divine Author, they have inadvertently involved it in a lvilderness of dark Confusion. Indeed, judging from their comments, they do not seem. To have under stood either the scope, design, or end for which it was given but to me it seems impossible for a serious and attentive mind duly to con-5 sider it; without'perceiving that it is, upon a general View of it throughout what it imports tube. 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.
