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Book Description
- Title:
- Discourses on Prophecy, in Which are Considered Its Structure, Use, and Inspiration; Being the Substance of Twelve Sermons Preached in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn, in the Lecture Founded by the Right Reverend William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, 7th edn.
- Author:
- John Davison [1777-1834]
- Publication Year:
- 1861
- Location:
- Oxford
- Publisher:
- John Henry and James Parker
- Pages:
- 383
- Subjects:
- Bible, Old Testament, Prophets, Prophecy
- Copyright Holder:
- Public domain
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Of the previous probability of a Divine Revelation
- Of the plan and course of inquiry pursued in the following Discourses
- On the connexion of Prophecy with the other evidences of revealed Religion
- On the contents of the Prophetic Volume as distinguished from its Predictions
- On the state of Prophecy—in its earliest age—from the Fall to the Patriarchal times
- State of Prophecy contemporary with the promulgation of the Mosaic Law
- State of Prophecy from Samuel to Malachi
- Stale of Prophecy from the reign of Solomon to its final cessation
- Of the Divine foreknowledge, and its union with the liberty of human action
- Criterion of Prophetic Inspiration—Proof of it in the Predictions concerning Christianity
- Predictions concerning the Jewish people,
- Predictions concerning the great Apostasy
- Predictions on the subject of Pagan kingdoms; Nineveh, Babylon, Tyre, and Egypt
- Predictions concerning the descendants of Ishmael, and the succession of the four ancient Empires






