The accomplishment of Scripture prophecies. Being eight sermons preach'd at the Cathedral church of St. Paul, in the year MDCCVII, at the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle esq. : with an appendix. To which is subjoin'd a dissertation, to prove that our Savior ascended into heaven on the evening after his resurrection / By William Whiston.

  • Whiston, William, 1667-1752.
Date:
1708
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Credit: The accomplishment of Scripture prophecies. Being eight sermons preach'd at the Cathedral church of St. Paul, in the year MDCCVII, at the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle esq. : with an appendix. To which is subjoin'd a dissertation, to prove that our Savior ascended into heaven on the evening after his resurrection / By William Whiston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Leopard, and a fourth without a. Name; compos’d, as it were, of the three others, Demontt. Pe 93. &c; for long Periods together. But when it | is remembred that a Beaf in Prophetick Stile always denotes an Empire, as cer- tainly and diftin@tly as that ufual word it will ceafe; and it will be very eafily un- derftood, that by thofe four great Beafts — were denoted the four grand Monarchies, which God permitted to tyrannize over his Church for many Ages; The Bady- loniany the Medo-Perfian, the Grecian, J oel i. Ae if, 25° ti. 17° be amaz’d atthe wonderful things which theProphet Foe/ afcribes to four fmallCrea- tures, or fo many kinds of Locutts, which we render the ‘Palmer-worm, the Lo- cuff, the Canker-worm, and the Caterpillar: proach; and the heathen were to rule over them. But the amazement will ceafe © when we obferve that thefe four /mall Beafts in Foel correfpond to fo many great ones in Daniel, and mean as di- ftin@ly as they the four Idolatrous and_ Tyrannical Monarchies already men- tion’d: and that upon this Hypothefisy all that Prophecy is eafy and clear; nay