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A number of Original Notes, and a Supplement, containing
Extracts from the writings of
Owen, Usher, Brown, Knox, Gill, More, &c.

A NEW EDITION,

IN WHICH THE

GREEK, LATIN, AND OTHER QUOTATIONS,
Are translated into English.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II

PHILADELPHIA :

PUBLISHED BY JAMES MARTIN,

No. 369, Market-street.

Stiles, printer.

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District of Pennsylvania, to wit

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-seventh day of May, in the thirty-seventh year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1813, James Martin, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"Dissertations on the Prophecies, which have been remarkably fulfilled, and at this time are fulfilling in the world. By Thomas Newton, D. D. late Lord Bishop of Bristol. To which are added, a number of original Notes, and a Supplement, containing Extracts from the writings of Owen, Usher, Brown, Knox, Gill, More, &c. A new edition, in which the Greek, Latin, and other Quotations are translated into English. In three volumes. Vol. II"

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CONTENTS

p. 13-132.

29. These epistles not prophetical, but peculiar to the

church of that age, 29. The excellent form and structure of

these epistles, 30. In what sense they may be said to be pro-

phetical, 31. Present state of the seven churches, 31. Of

Ephesus, 31. Of Smyrna, 32. Of Pergamus, 32. Of Thya-

tira, 33. Of Sardis, 34. Of Philadelphia, 35. Of Laodicea,

36. Use that we are to make of these judgments, 37.

CHAP. IV. the preparatory vision to things which must be

hereafter, 38. The scenery drawn in allusion to the encamp-

ment of the children of Israel in the wilderness, and to the

tabernacle or temple, 38.

CHAP. V. a continuation or the preparatory vision, in order to

show the great importance of the prophecies here delivered,

39. Future events supposed to be written in a book, 40.

This book sealed with seven seals, signifying so many periods

of prophecy, 41. The Son of God alone qualified to open the

seals, 41. Whereupon all creatures sing praises to God and

to Christ, 41.

CHAP. VI. Ver. 1, 2: contain the first seal or period, memora-

ble for conquest, 42. This period commences with Vespa-

sian, includes the conquest of Judea, and continues during the

reigns of the Flavian family and the short reign of Nerva, 42.

Ver. 3, 4: the second seal or period noted for war and slaugh-

ter, 44. This period commences with Trajan, 44. Compre-

hends the horrid wars and slaughters of the Jews and Romans

in the reigns of Trajan and Adrian, 45. Continues during the

reigns of Trajan and his successors by blood or adoption, 46.

Ver. 5, 6: the third seal or period, characterized by the strict

execution of justice, and by the procuration of corn and oil

and wine, 46. This period commences with Septimius Se-

verus, 47. He and Alexander Severus just and severe empe-

rors, and no less celebrated for procuring corn and oil, &c., 48.

This period continues during the reigns of the Septimian fa-

mily, 48. Ver. 7, 8: the fourth seal or period, distinguished

by a concurrence of evils, war and famine, and pestilence, and

wild beasts, 49. This period commences with Maximine, 49.

The wars of this period, 50. The famines, 51. The pesti-

lences, 52. The wild beasts, 52. This period from Maximine

to Diocletian, 52. Ver. 9, 10, 11: the fifth seal or period,

remarkable for a dreadful persecution of the Christians, 53.

This the tenth and last general persecution begun by Diocle-

tian, 53. From hence a memorable æra, called the era of

Diocletian, or æra of martyrs, 54. Ver. 12—17: the sixth seal

or period remarkable for great changes and revolutions, ex-

pressed by great commotions in the earth, and in the hea-

vens, 55. No change greater than the subversion of the Hea-

then, and establishment of the Christian religion, 55. The

like figures of speech used by other prophets, 55. The same

thing expressed afterwards in plainer language, 56.

CHAP. VII. a continuation of the sixth seal or period, 57. A

description of the peace of the church in Constantine's time,

59. And of the great accession of converts to it, 59. Not

only of Jews, but of all nations, 61. This period from the

reign of Constantine the Great to the death of Theodosius the

Great, 61.

CHAP. VIII. Ver. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6: The seventh seal or period

comprehends seven periods distinguished by the sounding of

seven trumpets, 62. The silence of half an hour previous to

the sounding of the trumpets, 62. As the seals foretold the

state of the Roman empire before and till it became Chris-

tian, so the trumpets foreshow the fate of it afterwards, 63.

The design of the trumpets to rouse the nations against the

Roman empire, 63. Ver. 7: At the sounding of the first trum-

pet Alaric and his Goths invade the Roman empire, twice be-

siege Rome, and set fire to it in several places, 63, 64 Ver.

8, 9: At the sounding of the second trumpet Attila and his

Huns waste the Roman provinces, and compel the eastern

emperor, Theodosius the second, and the western emperor,

Valentinian the third, to submit to shameful terms, 65, 66.

Ver. 10, 11: At the sounding of the third trumpet Genseric

and his Vandals arrive from Africa, spoil and plunder Rome,

and set sail again with immense wealth and innumerable cap-

tives, 67. Ver. 12: At the sounding of the fourth trumpet

Odoacer and the Heruli put an end to the very name of the

western empire, 68. Theodoric founds the kingdom of the

Ostrogoths in Italy, 68. Italy made a province of the eastern

empire, and Rome governed by a duke under the exarch of

Ravenna, 69. Ver. 13: The three following trumpets are dis-

tinguished by the name of the wo-trumpets, and the two fol-

lowing relate chiefly to the downfall of the eastern empire, as

the foregoing did to the downfall of the western empire, 70.

CHAP. IX. Ver. 1-12: a prophecy of the locusts or the Ara-

bians under their false prophet Mohammed, 70. At the sound-

ing of the fifth trumpet, a star fallen from heaven opens the

bottomless pit, and the sun and air are darkened, 71. Mo-

hammed fitly compared to a blazing star, and the Arabians to

locusts, 71. A remarkable coincidence, that at this time the

sun and air were really darkened, 71. The command not to

hurt any green thing, or any tree, how fulfilled, 72. Their

commission to hurt only the corrupt and idolatrous Chris-

tians, how fulfilled, 72. To torment the Greek and Latin

churches, but not to extirpate either, 73. Repulsed as often

as they besieged Constantinople, 73. These locusts described

so as to show that not real but figurative locusts were in-

tended, 74. Likened unto horses, and the Arabians famous

in all ages for their horses and horsemanship, 74. Having on

their heads as it were crowns like gold, 74. Their faces as

the faces of men, and hair as the hair of women, 75. Their

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