CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF SOME OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE REV. GEORGE STANLEY FABER'S SACRED CALENDAR OF PROPHECY; WITH AN ANSWER TO HIS ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE MILLENNIAL ADVENT AND REIGN OF MESSIAH. BY WILLIAM CUNINGHAME, Esq. OF LAINSHAW, IN THE COUNTY OF AYR. GLASGOW: PRINTED BY HUTCHISON & BROOKMAN, FOR T. CADELL, HATCHARD & SON, AND WAUGH & INNES, EDINBURGH. MDCCCXXIX. resurrection of the witnesses; and I am not aware that his novel scheme is in this respect at all less reconcileable than his former one with my general theory of Apocalyptic interpretation and chronology. It seems to me, however, upon other grounds, that I must give the preference to Mr Faber's original exposition of the witnesses, their death, and resurrection, before the one which he has offered in his recent work. But I have no intention of at present entering into the reasons of that preference. I have made these remarks simply with a design of showing, that though I have found myself obliged to controvert the leading principles of Mr Faber's Sacred Calendar of Prophecy, I feel no backwardness in rendering testimony to the learned author's services to the cause of prophetic truth, and in acknowledging my individual obligations to his first work on that important subject. To return now to Mr Faber's objections to my manner of calculating the 1260 years, the learned author affirms that the principle of reckoning by current time is utterly untenable. He alleges that I avail myself, in contending for that principle, of the carelessness of familiar speaking and writing sometimes in use among the Jews in their appearing to reckon by current and not complete time. "Thus it is said of our Lord," adds Mr Faber, " that he rose after three days, and that he was three days in the |