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After the delivery of these Dissertations in Glasgow , I was diverted from the thought of publishing them there by engaging in a Sunday evening lecture , in which I gave an exposition on the Revelation . This exposition was far more popular and better attended than the delivery of my Dissertations had been ; and . I was advised by a friend to publish an advertisement on the
subject * which I did in the following terms . ** It is proposed to publish by subscription , a treatise entitled , An Illustration of the Prophetical Part of the Revelation of
John , in the Form of Discourses or Lectures ; in which the obvious or probable sense of the text will be succinctly explained , and the events alluded to by the sacred prophet , veiled for the most , part under sublime figures and metaphors , will be elucidated
by an abstract of historical facts . To this publication will be . prefixed a preliminary Dissertation containing a vindication of the authenticity of this book , a display of its utility , with * remarks on some of the most celebrated
expositors and their schemes . *' To this advertisement was annexed , An Address to the Public
Non ornnis moriar , multaquepars rnei Vllabit Libitinam * Usque ego poster a Crescarn laude recetis ^ dum CapUolium Scandet cum tacitd virgine Pontifex . Hor . Lib . III . Ode 30 .
lam not an original m the application of this passage of Horace to a serious purpose . On casting my eye on a note in the Dauphin edition , 1 find that Jerorn made a . similar application of it many
centuries ago , in his epitaph on Paula . lam pleased , to think , that I have the authority of a learned ana * respectable Father to countenance me in my method of applying this passage .
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on the subject of the Revelation of , three pages , length , bearing date , Glasgow , 27 th March 1795 . Several subscribers were procured for this proposed pub lication in England and Scotland ; but not so many as to render it safe for me , in my then depressed situation , with a numerous fatally of eight children all on my hands , to undertake a work of this diffi .
culty and magnitude . Besides , by this time , ( towards the end of July 1795 , ) having been impress * ed with the threatening aspect of public affairs in my native country , as well as affected with some
private my own situation , I had come to the resolution of emigrating to the United States of America . I therefore laid aside this design , and published a short paper signifying my intention in . this
respect . With a sigh , I bade farewell to Glasgow , to E dina r s lofty towers and fair Scotia ' s realm *
* . While I lived at Glasgow , I was happy in the acquainrance of several worthy and respectable citizens -of that place ; and particularly in that of Mr . P . Houghton , a young man of a pious and amiable disposition who came from England , and then attended the Divinity class in . the University , and preached occasionally for me ; now a dissenting
minister in England , The reader who feels himself in any degree interested in the narrative , wiil naturally inquire , how the societies of Unitarian Christians . in Scotland proceeded af . er the removal of Mr . Palmer , and the departure . of Mr . Spencer and the Author ? 1 shall endeavour to state
what I know ^ f the matter as briefly *•* possible . The . ^ ociety of Montrose had no public meetings after I left they-For far full into a state of derangement in . a shorr . time after its institution . Glasgow subsisted for some years under t ** or three successive preachers . The W * tan an Spcieties , propejly SQ cajledj °
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195 Account of Mr . William Christie .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/4/
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