PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE Present Volume forms the Sequel and Conclusion of the Author's Hulsean Lectures "on the CANON of the HOLY SCRIPTURES of the Old and New Testament and on the Apocrypha.' The greater portion of the present Discourses was preached before the University of Cambridge in the months of April and October, 1848'; and they are now published in compliance with the injunctions of the pious and learned Founder of the Lectureship, the REVEREND JOHN HULSE. In some of the following Lectures reference will be found to an APPENDIX, which the Author had intended, in the first instance, to add to this Volume; but, as the printing advanced, it was found that it would swell the work to an inconvenient bulk; and it will therefore be embodied in a separate Volume, which will shortly be published 2, and which will also contain the APOCALYPSE, in the ORIGINAL GREEK, from the best Manuscripts, and a revised ENGLISH VERSION, and HARMONY, with NOTES. Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, Jan. 26, 1849. They were also preached at Westminster Abbey, in the same year. 2 [This has now been published.] TABLE OF CONTENTS. General acknowledgment of its Genuineness and Inspiration in Subsequent ambiguities; how to be accounted for Literal interpretation of prophetical, figurative, language From the Rabbinical idea of a Sabbatical Millennium. On the authority of Irenæus in this matter Influence of this doctrine on the Apocalypse St. Jerome His language concerning a Millennium St. Augustine-His language on the same subject The doctrine of a Millennium called heretical Not known in the Church for a thousand years Testimonies on this subject, of Cornelius a Lapide, Tillemont, This doctrine, grounded on Judaistic notions, on oral tradition, and on erroneous notions of the Plan of the Apocalypse 115, 117, 118 Application of the Exposition of these Symbols. St. John's office in closing the Canon of Scripture The piercing of our Lord's side, how made subservient to the Practical Exhortations 153-155 Exposition of the Apocalypse; Plan of the Apocalypse; the Seven Epistles and the Seven Seals. 163, 164 |