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It is in the conviction that attention to "the sure word of prophecy" will not lessen but deepen our value for the foundational truths of our common faith, that he again ventures to solicit the attention of his brethren to these pages, which he now commends to the blessing of Him whose grace is able to pardon their imperfections, and to prosper whatever is of His truth in them.

THE first edition of this work was published in 1848. Each succeeding year has deepened my conviction of the certainty and momentous importance of the truths feebly and imperfectly treated of in it. When the Eastern branch of the Roman Empire shall have been resuscitated, and . when Egypt, Assyria and Jerusalem, shall have become the sphere in which those habits of thought and action now cherished in the West shall have attained the matured fo...

The prophets of the Old Testament in a marked and special manner looked forward into the future. They personated and expressed the Hope of Israel and the Kingdom of God. Standing on their lofty watch-towers, and looking to the farthest horizon, they saw events unseen by ordinary men, and spoke of things to come long after the generations they served had passed into the tombs. They were the first in antiquity to perceive that the old East was d...