OF

Prophecy :

IN THE COURSE OF WHICH ARE ELUCIDATED MANY PREDICTIONS,

WHICH OCCUR

IN ISAIAH, AND DANIEL,
IN THE WRITINGS OF THE EVANGELISTS,

AND

THE BOOKS OF REVELATION;

AND WHICH ARE THOUGHT TO FORETELL, AMONG OTHER

GREAT EVENTS,

A REVOLUTION IN FRANCE,

FAVORABLE TO THE INTERESTS OF MANKIND,
THE OVERTHROW OF THE PAPAL POWER,

AND OF -
ECCLESIASTICAL TYRANNY,
THE DOWNFAL OF CIVIL DESPOTISM,
AND THE SUBSEQUENT MELIORATION OF THE STATE OF

THE WORLD:

TOGETHER WITH A LARGE COLLECTION OF EXTRACTS, INTERSPERSED

THROUGH THE WORK, AND TAKEN FROM NUMEROUS COMMENTA-
TORS; AND PARTICULARLY FROM

Joseph Mede, Vitringa, Dr. Thomas Goodwin, Dr. Henry More, Dr. John Owen, Dr. Cressener,

Peter Jurieu, Brenius, Bishop Chandler, Sir Isaac Newton, Mr. William Lowth, Fleming,
Bengelius, Daubuz, Whitby, Lowman, Bishop Newton, and Bishop Hurd.

BY THE REV. JOSEPH TOWERS, L. L. D.

4-29-1932

CONTENTS

CHAP. XX. Predictions in Daniel, which speak the

same language with the recently cited prophecies of the

Apocalypse, and are applicable not only to the antichris-

tian governments of Europe, but to those of the world

in general.

* 1

Ch. XXI. Remarks on the Numbers which occur

in Daniel and St. John, and on those imperfect notices

which they have given us with respect to the time, when

some great events will be accomplished.

15

Ch. XXII. A prediction, uttered by Christ himself,

relative to the destruction of all antichristian dominion

and usurpation.

34

App. to ch. XXII. Bishop Porteus's reflections

on the Critical Complexion of the present times.. 45

* Ch. XXIII. The Sixth Seal shewn to be prophetic

of the overthrow of all antichristian Dominion in the

European world ; together with a short account of the

accomplishment of the first, second, fourth, and fifth

seals';' and a new explication of the Third Şeal, in the

course of which are introduced a number of extracts,

relative to the decline and fall of the Roman empire, and

the irruptions of the Northern nations. .. . 46