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DISSERTATION

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PROPHECIES

RELATING TO THE

Final Reftoration of the Jews.

THE LION HATH ROARED, WHO WILL NOT FEAR?
THE LORD GOD HATH SPOKEN, WHO CAN BUT PROPHESY?

Amos iii, 8.

By the Rev. E. W. WHITAKER,

RECTOR OF ST. JOHN'S, CLERKENWELL,

AND THE UNITED PARISHES OF

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PREFACE.

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MONG the few, whofe attention the following Treatife may attract, be fome whom it will be proper to apprize, that on the subject of it three different opinions have been entertained; one of which is, That the predictions promifing a final restoration to the people of Ifrael, are to be interpreted in a spiritual fense, and expected to be fulfilled only in an heavenly country: Another, That they are to be received indeed literally, yet cannot be accomplished on the prefent earth, but will be fo on a new one, which fhall furnish an ample theatre for the promised scene of happiness: The third is, that which takes for its ground the plain declarations of Scripture, and is now to be fubmitted to the Reader's judgement. It was neceffary, in treating of this, to notice the principal arguments urged in fupport of the other hypothefes; thefe, I hope, I have ftated fairly, as well as answered fatisfactorily. The great fource of the controverfies on this point has been the doctrine of the Millennium, entirely feparate how

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