677 OF Prophecp: IN THE COURSE OF WHICH ARE ELUCIDATED MANY PREDICTIONS, WHICH OCCUR IN ISAIAH, AND DANIEL, IN THE WRITINGS OF THE EVANGELISTS, AND THE BOOKS OF REVELATION; AND WHICH ARE THOUGHT TO FORETELL, AMONG OTHER GREAT EVENTS, A REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, FAVORABLE TO THE INTERESTS OF MANKIND, THE OVERTHROW OF THE PAPAL POWER, AND OF ECCLESIASTICAL TYRANNY, THE WORLD: TOGETHER WITH A LARGE COLLECTION OF EXTRACTS, INTERSPERSED THROUGH THE WORK, AND TAKEN FROM NUMEROUS COMMENTA- Joseph Mede, Vitringa, Dr. Thomas Goodwin, Dr. Henry More, Dr. John Owen, Dr. Cressener, Peter Jurieu, Brenius, Bishop Chandler, Sir Isaac Newton, Mr. William Lowth, Fleming, BY THE REV. JOSEPH TOWERS, L. L. D. VOL. II. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM DUANE, PHILADELPHIA, 1808. CHAP. XX. Predictions in Daniel, which speak the same language with the recently cited prophecies of the Apocalypse, and are applicable not only to the antichris- tian governments of Europe, but to those of the world Ch. XXI. Remarks on the Numbers which occur in Daniel and St. John, and on those imperfect notices which they have given us with respect to the time, when some great events will be accomplished. Ch. XXII. A prediction, uttered by Christ himself, relative to the destruction of all antichristian dominion App. to ch. XXII. Bishop Porteus's reflections on the Critical Complexion of the present times. Ch. XXIII. The Sixth Seal shewn to be prophetic of the overthrow of all antichristian Dominion in the European world; together with a short account of the accomplishment of the first, second, fourth, and fifth scals;' and a new explication of the Third Şeal, in the course of which are introduced number of extracts, relative to the decline and fall of the Roman empire, and |