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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:
Publication Year:
Location:
Oxford
Publisher:
John Henry and James Parker
Pages:
383
Subjects:
Bible, Old Testament, Prophets, Prophecy
Copyright Holder:
Public domain

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
    1. Of the previous probability of a Divine Revelation
    2. Of the plan and course of inquiry pursued in the following Discourses
  1. On the connexion of Prophecy with the other evidences of revealed Religion
  2. On the contents of the Prophetic Volume as distinguished from its Predictions
  3. On the state of Prophecy—in its earliest age—from the Fall to the Patriarchal times
  4. State of Prophecy contemporary with the promulgation of the Mosaic Law
  5. State of Prophecy from Samuel to Malachi
  6. Stale of Prophecy from the reign of Solomon to its final cessation
  7. Of the Divine foreknowledge, and its union with the liberty of human action
  8. Criterion of Prophetic Inspiration—Proof of it in the Predictions concerning Christianity
  9. Predictions concerning the Jewish people,
  10. Predictions concerning the great Apostasy
  11. Predictions on the subject of Pagan kingdoms; Nineveh, Babylon, Tyre, and Egypt
  12. Predictions concerning the descendants of Ishmael, and the succession of the four ancient Empires