The accomplishment of Scripture prophecies. Being eight sermons preach'd at the Cathedral church of St. Paul, in the year MDCCVII, at the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle esq. : with an appendix. To which is subjoin'd a dissertation, to prove that our Savior ascended into heaven on the evening after his resurrection / By William Whiston.

  • Whiston, William, 1667-1752.
Date:
1708
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Credit: The accomplishment of Scripture prophecies. Being eight sermons preach'd at the Cathedral church of St. Paul, in the year MDCCVII, at the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle esq. : with an appendix. To which is subjoin'd a dissertation, to prove that our Savior ascended into heaven on the evening after his resurrection / By William Whiston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Be The Accomplifoment of | : of the Moderns, efpecially thofe which - arofe under the Antichriftian Ufurpati- ons, which on an impartial enquiry, we perceive conttary to’them. © ~ Bu . But to leave this Digreflion, which yet: is not wholly foreign to the point before us, I obferve, that ’tis no wonder if the later Writers, who ftill have fome par- ticular Perfons or Events of old time in their view, whenthey_ read the Prophe- cies, do widely differ from, the Ancients, who never dream’d of any other Perfon as the main fubject of thofe Predictions, than the Meflias whom God had from the beginning engag’d to fend for the ly are many gone of late from all the Ancient Notions concerning the King- dom of the Meffias,; that I have fome- time been ready to wonder that they have not deny’d that there were ancient un- coming of fuch a Perfon at all. They have, I think, evaded ‘Texts almoft as plain as thofe few which they allow to. lictle more pains, have done the fame by thofe likewife. But that the main Ainy along appertain’d to the Meffias and his Coming and Kingdom, is fo plain to as ny one who with a due meaftre of care me ays and