Volume 3

History the interpreter of prophecy, or, a view of scriptural prophecies and their accomplishment. In the past and present occurrences of the world; with conjectures respecting their future completion / By Henry Kett.

  • Kett, Henry, 1761-1825.
Date:
1799
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Credit: History the interpreter of prophecy, or, a view of scriptural prophecies and their accomplishment. In the past and present occurrences of the world; with conjectures respecting their future completion / By Henry Kett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that the prefent reign of the infidel Anti- chrifi has been exprefsly foretold. Still, however, it will be alked, why fiiould this period produce this mon- flrous progeny ? This queflion involves fuch a variety of matter fo fecretly con- nected, that any thing like accurate in- veft'^^tion would exceed the limits of a chapter. But I fliall endeavour to point out the principal caufes ; and thefe will, I think, conduCt us to the only ad- equate explanation. A writer‘s, who confiders himfelf as an advocate for Chriftianity, whilfl he is labouring to remove its foundations, aflerts, that “ the great father of modern unbelievers among Mahometans and Chriftians, was Averroes, a Saracen Ma- hometan of the twelfth century.” He Prieftley’s Difcourfes on the Evidences of Re- vealed Religion. was