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. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. JCJf fajatrrn of Infquitj. 2 Thessalomans ii. 5-7. "Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time. For the Mystery OF Iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way." The apostacy, and the Man of Sin, who was to organise and preside over that apostacy, were not now for the first time brought before the minds of the Christians at Thessalonica. Paul had, ere now, in his preaching, distinctly informed them of the blight that was to come over the Christian church. "Remember ye not," says he, "that when I was yet with you, I told you of these things?" He counted it not enough, as the phrase goes, "to preach the Gospel" to them. He declared to them the whole counsel of God. He put them on their guard against the heresies that were to spring up in the church; and, for this purpose, gave them an outline of its future history. In every healthy period of the church, prophecy has always occupied an important place in the attention of God's faithful ministers. If Paul told the Thessalonians of these things, so many hundred years before the Man of sin was to be revealed, how much more necessary, now that he is revealed, that the attention of Christians should be called to them. Yet for a long period, till recently, the prophetic Scriptures, and especially those referring to the apostacy, had fallen into neglect. It had even passed into a maxim, that "the study of unfulfilled prophecy either finds a man mad or makes him so." How derogatory to the Word of God, in which these prophecies are recorded! How utterly opposed to the express declarations of the Scriptures themselves!" Blessed," saith the...
