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prophet John , but to study the prophecies themselves . This is the substance of what Peter says in the first chapter ; and then in the second he proceeds to describe , out of this * stive word of prophecy , ' how there should
arise in the church false prophets or faJse teachers , ( expressed collectively in the Apocalypse by the name of the false prophet ) ' who should bring in damnable heresies , even denying the Lord that bought them / which is the character of Antichrist . * And
many / saith he , ' shall follow their lusts ; they that dwell on the earth shall be deceived by the false prpphet , and pe made drunk with the wine of the whore ' s fornication , by reason of whom the way of truth shall be blasphemed ' Apoc , xiii , "
The learned author continues the comparison of passages of the Apocalypse with those of Peter ' s Second Epistle , in further particulars , and then proceeds : " Thus does the author of this Epistle spend alt the second chapter in describing the
qualities of the Apocalyptic beasts and false prophet ; and then , in the third , lie goes on ta describe their destructions oKNre folly , and the ftiture kingdom . He saith , that , because the coming of Christ should be long deferred , they would scoff , saying ,
* Where is the promise of his coming ?* Then he desesibes the sudden coming of the day of the Lord upon them , * as a thief in the night / which is the Apocalyptic phrase ; ami the
millennium , or * thousand years , which are with God as a dayj' the 4 passing away of the old heavens and earth * ' by a conflagration in the lake of fire j and our * looking for new heaven * and a new earth , wherein dweHeth
righteousness / Seeing ^ therefore , Peter and John were apogties of the circumcision , it seems to me that titey staid with their churches i » Judea ? and Syria , till the Romans made war upon their nation , that is , till the twelfth yew of Nero ; that they then followed
the main body of their flying churches into Asia * and that Peter went thenee by Coriwih to Rome ; that the Roman empire looked ! upon those churches aft enemies , became Jew * hy birth ; add therefore to prevent insurrection , secured their leaders , and' banished John into Fatrao * 1 * seeifttt atoo pmfeabltt to m * v « w * the ApocaJytme
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there composed , and that soon after the Epistle to the Hebrews and those of Peter were written to these churches , with reference to this pro * phecy , as what they were particularly concerned in . " Sir Isaac Newton ' s
" Observations upon the Apocalypse of St . John , " 1733 , pp . 239—244 . " It is obvious that the Apocalypse must have been written and generally well known before the Apostle Paul wrote the best authenticated of hia epistles ; for he evistently alludes to it in his Epistles to the Corinthians ,
Galatians , Thessalonians and' Timothy ; and to the Corinthians and Thessalonians explains some passages of it , which , from its highly figurative language , must , in those early days , have appeared mysterious and
inexplicable , and become liable to be perverted by being misunderstood Thus , having in conformity to the doctrine of the Apocalypse upon that subject , told the Corinthians , 1 Cor xv . that the dead were destined to
be raised in order , at three different periods , first , Jesus , now constituted the Christ , or predicted sovereign of the whole world , as ' the first-fruits ;' secondly , * those that are his , ' at that period when he shall come with
power to take upon him his promised kingdom ; and thirdly , thai at some future period , viz . after the thousand years predated by John , « tfce end ;* of general resurrection , wouM take place ; and having , by the most convincing arguments , shewn , that those
who are raised cannot enjoy that future state of immortality and inco * - ruption in such earthly , corruptible bodies as we Have in this life ; lie proceed * to ' shew then * a mystery , that is * tfceatpfaui * to * them a circum stance not revealed in the Apoearyspe
This he states to be , that when those faithftil disciples of Christ who are dead , shall be raised with spiritual incorruptible bodies , such of that character as shall be living * at tile
hurt trumpet / sbail undergo an equal eUange to fit them fbr that assumption which tie has described' to theTbcssa lonran ^ V 'Them , iv . \ 7 ; and adds , 1 Cor ; irr . ^« , ' for the trumpet shall sound , and tht < iead'shall be raised in *
corruptible , andwe shall be changed ^ In these wortfcr the ? apostle cert ** nry eeiiWl not mem tot ^ ach us , that strch things ? an trwmpetc * vrere itt use in
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Mr * Hoioe on Evansorfs Observations on the Apocalypse . 4 Q 1 V
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/19/
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