Disquisitions on the Prophecies of Daniel: With an Appendix, Exhibiting the Fulfillment of the Prophecy "in the Third Time of Cyrus, King of Persia," to the Present Time (Classic Reprint)

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In consulting the works, and in listening to the argu ments of various expositors of Scripture, the author has often felt that a style and character was too apt to prevail, which, though certainly right and desirable in all respects, when employed on grounds that are plain and undoubted, yet, where the sentiments embraced and expressed are com tested, and where the determined object is investigation and strict search for truth, is peculiarly liable to fail of the result desired, through want of logical point and distinct ness. In all investigations, the pillars of support and strength should be raised from and upon the ground in vestigated and after this, whatever strength can be im parted from abroad, is not only admissible, but proper, and always to be desired: but these helps from abroad, can never, in themselves, be able to convince. The argument must proceed from the premises.

With such views, the author has endeavored to examine the prophecies of Daniel, and, in presenting his work to the public, before whom, in a like manner, he has never before appeared in the smallest degree, and, without a kindly hand to counsel or advise, he is necessarily afl'ected with a sense of shrinking and distrust: and vet, believingas he does, that the doctrines which his work contains are sound, and seeing no other means available, by which to present to the world a class ofevidences, which, to his mind, are amply sufficient to create an expectation of the speedy consummation of all temporal thmgs, he is influ enced by a sense of duty. He thinks he has not hastily seized upon doctrines through love of novelty, or through the promptings of a disquiet spirit, which, impatient of a Christian life in a sinful world, would rashly hape any thing, if so there might be change. Neither has he any evidence of the truth of his sentiments, farther than rea son decides, that they are inculcated by the Bible.

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