THE INTERPRETER OF PROPHECY, OR, A VIEW OF SCRIPTURAL PROPHECIES- THE AND THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENT IN THE Paft and Prefent OCCURRENCES of the WORLD. WITH CONJECTURES RESPECTING THEIR FUTURE COMPLETION. BY HENRY KETT, B.D. FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND ONE OF HIS IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. • FOURTH EDITION, WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES. London: PRINTED BY BYE AND LAW, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE, FOR THE AUTHOR ; AND SOLD BY F, AND C. RIVINGTON, No. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 1801. RETT TO THE RIGHT REVEREND GEORGE PRETYMAN, D.D. F.R.S. LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN,. FOR THE INTERESTS OF RELIGION, WHOSE CONDUCT AS A MAN, TO THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF ENGLAND; ESPECIALLY AT A PERIOD, WHEN SUCH EXAMPLES ARE EMINENTLY USEFUL ΤΟ THE CAUSE OF CHRISTIANITY; THE FOLLOWING WORK IS, WITH PROFOUND RESPECT, INSCRIBED, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBLIGED AND OBEDIENT SERVANT, HENRY KETT. A 2 PREFACE. THE aftonishing progress made by infidelity in the present age of the world evidently requires from the friends of Chrif tianity a peculiar degree of energy and vigilance in the caufe of Religious Truth, They cannot fail to recollect, that, although Religion itself is invulnerable against every attack which artifice and violence direct against it, it is their indifpenfable duty to exert their utmoft efforts to check the ravages of an enemy so fatal to the deareft interefts of man: and no mode of protec tion against its contagious fpirit seems better calculated for general ufe, than à FULL AND CLEAR ELUCIDATION OF THE PROPHETICAL PARTS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. The evidence derived from PROPHECY in fupport of REVELATION, is a progref five and an accumulating evidence, which A 3 fhines |