An historical dissertation on the prophetic scriptures of the Old Testament. Chiefly those of a chronological character; shewing their aspect on the present times, and on the destinies of the Jewish nation / by Matthew Habershon.

  • Habershon, Matthew, 1789-1852.
Date:
1840
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Credit: An historical dissertation on the prophetic scriptures of the Old Testament. Chiefly those of a chronological character; shewing their aspect on the present times, and on the destinies of the Jewish nation / by Matthew Habershon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    would bring the total sum of six THOUSAND AND EIGHTEEN. , I will close with the following just and eloquent observations which lately appeared in the Church of England Quarterly Review, as I think their echo should be reverberated as far as echo can reach. “ We are living in times when the Christian and the Infidel, the Statesman and the Divine, seem to agree in the expectation that some great crisis is at hand. The public mind, both at home and abroad, is held in the calm of a feverish suspense. New and strange blasphemies are coming to the birth; the foundations of the State are loosing, and the Church of God is beset and assailed on every side. Amid these thick clouds, all eyes are fixed with an eager gaze on the dark and coming future. But who shall unravel its mysteries? Who can decypher its solemn roll of fate? Who can pierce with steady eye into the depths of past history, and read there, as ina murror, the judgment or mercy in store for after generations? Who can expound the strange dream of this fleeting, shadowy world, or unlock to the faith of the Church the royal treasure-house of the good things to come? “‘Itis here that the wisdom of the world stands rebuked, and its idols are all mute and silent. The research of its historians here proves in vain; the policy of its statesmen is baffled and confounded. The future continues veiled from every worldly eye in deepest mystery, and every effort of human pride to decipher the solemn handwriting proves utterly in vain.