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A collection of the chief prophetic characters of the Meffiah,

and general principles founding the chief reasonings from

these characters.

Historical characters,

89

Doctrinal characters, names and titles of the Meffiah,

and characters of the times of the Meffiah,

Characters of the prophetic style concerning him,

Of the three general properties that make predictions

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proofs of Chriftianity; of fingular characters, and the

use of doctrinal characters,

92

Of combinations of fingular and more common charac-

ters,

93

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How characters, which abstractly confidered are indefi-

nite, become fingular,

94

Of fingular descriptions made up of characters, which,
taken separately, are not fingular,

Of adminicular proofs from coincidence in style,

How different predictions are proved to be parallel to one
another,

95

ib.

ib.

The predictions concerning the Messiah confidered according

to the order of time in which the events happened.

SECT. I. Of the Messiah's life, death, and exaltation.

Of the forerunner of the Meffiah, If. xl.

96

Malachi iii. and iv.

97

Of the time of the Meffiah's coming, Gen. xlix.

Of his being born of a virgin, If. vii. viii. ix.

Of his sufferings, and the many predictions of them,

128

Of the number of events foretold in these predictions,

132

Of the several steps of his exaltation,

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SECT. II. Of the Messiah's church.

Of the different kinds of predictions of the enlightening

of the Gentiles,

Pag.

139

That these predictions are not meant of the conversion of

particular profelytes before Chrift's coming, but of the

converfion of nations, which happened after his co-

ming,

141

Of particular nations to be converted,

The doctrine which was to convert them was to proceed

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142

from Judea,

ib.

Of the manner of propagating that doctrine,

143

Of the pouring down of the Spirit of God,

144

149

Proofs from Pfal. xl. Dan. ix. Pfal. cx. If. lxvi. Mal. i.

10. 11. Zeph. iii. 11.

150. στ.

That the first state of the Messiab's church was to be a

state of perfecution,

153

Of her ataining the countenance of authority, and legal e-

stablishment,

155

SECT. III. Of the Messiah's enemies, and particularly of the

unbelieving Jews.

The Meffiah's treatment from the Jews is defcribed as the

reverie of what he would meet with from the Gentiles, 157

Of the fubstitution of the Gentiles in the room of the

Jews,

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ib.

Of the wilful unbelief of the Jewish teachers and rulers,

Though the prophetic books were to continue in their

hands, they would be as a fealed book, &c. If. xxix. 8. 159

158

Of the many events and circumstances contained in the

predictions of the unbelief of the Jews,

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161

Of the difperfion of the unbelieving Jews,

Of Daniel ix. - Of predictions which speak both of the

163

unbelief of the Jews, and of their difperfion,

ib.

Of Deut xxviii.

164

A final difperfion of the Jews foretold by prophets who

wrote after the return from the Babylonish captivity,

Zech. xi. xiii. xiv.

Pag.

Of predictions which describe the day of the Messiah as a

day of righteous vengeance against the incorrigible ad-

verfaries of Zion,

168

Several characters which distinguish a later difperfion of
the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, If. xi. Dan.

xii.

169

Of the subsistence of the Jewish nation in their difperfion,

Jer. xxx. 11. &c.

174

SECT. IV. Predictions concerning oppofition to the true reli-

gion after the converfion of the Gentiles.

Of the book of Daniel,

That Daniel's prophecies extend to the time called the time

of the end,

175

ib.

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Characters of the little horn, in chap. vii. from the time

of its rife,

179

Proofs that the fourth beast represents the Roman em-

pire,

180

Proofs that the time of the rise of its ten horns is the time

of its downfall and division,

181

That the little horn is not one individual, but a fuccession

of rulers,

182

Another part of the little horn's character, his feat in the
western part of the empire,

ib.

Of his being the horn that had eyes, and a mouth speak.

ing great things,

183

Of his being little as to fecular power, and of the greatness
ascribed to him in other respects,

ib.

Of his oppofition to true religion, his rifing after the true
religion had been established, his promoting apostasy,

&c.

184

Of the extent of his power through the western empire,

(not through the eaflern),

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185

Of his duration. - Dan. vii. and xii. compared. - Con-

firmations from the prophetic style in calculations. -

Though the beginning of the calculations in Daniel is
obfcure, the extent is so far clear, that it is evident it
must not be applied to natural, but prophetic days,

Of the cause of obfcurity as to the beginning of the calcu-

lations,

Of various arguments against the opinion that applies

them to natural years, from the prophetic style, (as

in Daniel ix); from the proofs that the emblems do

not denote individuals, but fucceffions; - from the

scope and extent of the predictions; - and from the se-

veral parts of the defcription of the little horn,

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A fummary of the characters of the little horn under five

heads,

Properties of these five characters. - Their clearness, be-
cause vifions and emblems are interpreted in the predic-
tions themselves, and the three first empires being ex-
pressly named, shew by inference what must be reckon-
ed to be the fourth,

The series of events repeated in parallel predictions that

mutually illustrate one another,

Properties of the events themselves, - certainty, - noto-
riety, - marvellous nature,

Remarks on the structure of the predictions, particularly

as to their hastening downwards to the times of the fall

and divifion of the fourth empire, and omitting events

as confiderable,

Peculiarity of the five characters to the present Romish

powers. - They are not applicable to the Pagan empe-

rors, -1. As to time; - 2. Nature, extent; - and,

3. Means of power; - 4. The crime of being the

fource of corruption in religion to other nations, and

the crime of apoftafy; -5. Duration,

These characters not applicable to any future Romish

power,

The description not indefinite or indeterminate, but fuffi-
ciently circumftantiate,

Pag.

The deductions not prolix or dark. - A fummary of the

chief fingular characters,

SECT. V. Of the book of Revelation.

The apoftolical doctrine about the importance of fome

knowledge of the fubject of these predictions, proved

from 2 Theff. ii. 1 John ii. Rev. ii.

Harmony of Daniel and John in the five characters above

mentioned,

Of the first complex character, the place and time, three

diftinguithing marks of the first branch of that complex

character,

A decifive proof from Rev. xvii. 10.

The fecond branch of the first character, the time of the

beaft's rife, and the extent and means of his power, de-

scribed in the fame passages, as Rev. xvii. 12. 13. 17.

The proofs in John parallel to those in Daniel,

Additional proof in John, from the beaft's being ftill fu-

ture,

From his being the eighth secular, and the seventh idola-
trous head,

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ib.

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ib.

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216

ib.

217

ib.

The

The converfion of the empire implied, in Rev. xvii. 10.

11.

Of the fecond complex character, from the nature and ex-

Pag.

219

These things not applicable to the Pagan empire,

222

Third character, the means of acquiring power, fingula-

rity of it,

223

Fourth character, relating to the crimes; of which seve-

ral branches; fuch as, reviving an image of the old fu-

perstition, and healing its deadly wound,

225

Apoftafy,

226

Proving the mother and source of fuch things,

Particular enormities against God, his tabernacle, them

that dwell in heaven, and the fouls of men,

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229

Arguments from John's admiration,

230

From the proper fubject of prophecy, future events,

ib.

The predictions confidered in the order of time in which they

were delivered.

SECT. I. Of predictions in the books of Moses and Job.

Of the first promise, Gen. iii. 14.

236

Of prophecies in the books of Mofes, relating to the en-

lightening of the Gentiles; particularly Deut. xxxii. 21.

Gen. ix. 25. &c. and the four promises to the pa-

triarchs, that in their feed the nations should be blessed, 242

Proofs that these promises relate to one particular feed.-

A comparison of them with the first promite, Gen. iii.

14. Gen. xlix. Gen. xxvii. 29.; Balaam's prophecy,

Numb. xxiv.

Balaam's prophecy confidered more particularly

Proofs of the true interpretation of the promises to the

patriarchs, and of Balaam's prophecy, from the If-

raelitish history,

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251

Facts concerning Christ, &c. foretold in the books of Mo-

fes, numerous,

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Of

Gospel-doctrines in the books of Mofes, and in Joshua,

Of what Moses says of Melchizedek,