"He which testifieth these things, saith, Surely, I come quickly. Amen. Even so,
Come Lord Jesus."

LONDON:

ELLIOT STOCK, 62 PATERNOSTER ROW.
CORNISH BROTHERS, BIRMINGHAM.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY SYNOPSIS.

Extracts exhibiting the character of the volume. Antiquity. New Heavens

and Earth. Kingdom of God. The Judgment Day. The Age's Crisis.

Present Evil Times. It hasteth greatly. Signs of the times. Author's Ex-

cuse. Loving Christ's Appearing. Author's method. Pre-millennialists

are missionaries.

CHAPTER I.

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Definition of Terms. Millennium. Chiliasts. The great question of the age.

Principles of interpretation. Critics. Taylor. Ernesti. Vitringa. Luther.

Rosenmuller. Smith.

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CHAPTER II.

TRADITIONARY TESTIMONY. Criticism on Dan. 12 2. Hebrew Church.

Rabbins. Targums. Gamaliel. Talmuds. Zohar. Jonathan. Kimchi.

Maimonides. FIRST RESURRECTION. Book of Wisdom. Antiquity. Six

THOUSAND YEARS. Rabbi Elias. Other Jewish Doctors. The Gemarah.

Heathen nations. Zoroaster. The general belief of all nations. Sibylline,

Oracles. Book of Enoch. Testament of the twelve patriarchs. Fourth

Book of Ezra. Ascension of Isaiah. Second Book of Esdras. GENERAL.

CONFLAGRATION. Jews and Heathen.' Greeks. Romans. Persians.

Egyptians. Geologists. ADVENT AND RESTITUTION. Classic writers.

Mohammedans. Ancient belief. Modern heathen nations. Karens. Az-

tecs. Jews. Arabs. Hindoos. Jewish view of the kingdom. Chalmers.

Charnock. Watts.

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CHAPTER III.

The early church from Hermas to Origen. All Pre-millennialists. Hermas.

Clement. Barnabas. Ignatius. Polycarp. Papias. Justin Martyr. Irenæ-

us. Epistle of the Churches of Vienna and Lyons. Three Millions of Pre-

millennialists. Hippolytus. Melito. Tertullian. Montanists. The Alogi.

Clement of Alexandria. Cyprian. Methodius. Nepos. Coracian. Other

witnesses. Character of the opponents of the doctrine of the Lord's reign

on earth.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER IV.

Voice of the Church from Origen to Augustine. Origen. His erroneous

principles of intepretation. His admissions. The first anti-millennarian of

any note. Victorinus. Lactantius. Dionysius. Relatives of our Lord.

Commodian. Gregory. Sulpicius. Paulinus. Apollinaris. Other wit-

nesses. Some begin to reject the Apocalypse. The Nicene Fathers. The

doctrine still prevalent. Eusebius. Cyril. Epiphanius. A postacy.

Ambrose. Chrysostome. Hilary. Jerome an opposer. His character

and admissions. Who crushed the truth? Augustine. A new millennial

theory. Testimony of Dr. Lardner. Chillingworth. Russell. Bush.

Moshiem. Burton. Neander Gibbcn. Encyclopedias. Newton.

Mede Maitland Kitto. Milner. Taylor. Whitby. Stuart. Giesler.

The Septuagint Chronology.

CHAPTER V.

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From Augustine to Luther. Truth dying. An onward creeping Apostacy.
Character of the times. Origenism. The Apocalypse rejected as not being
canonical. Why? Chiliasm once orthodoxy-now heresy. Rome's oppo-
sition. The infant harlot extirpates an apostolic truth! Still it lives. The
new view. Papal Divines. Andreas. Anti-millennarianism. Dark Ages.
Romish Doctors-Joachim Abbas. Anselm. Almeric. Jean Pierre
d'Olive. Jewish Rabbis of the middle ages. The Paulikians. Thomas
Aquinas. Waldenses. The Noble Lesson. A line of witnesses. Wickliff.
Day Breaking

CHAPTER VI.

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Views of the great reformers. Era and century of the reformation. Miscella-
neous testimony-Tyndale. Bradford. Piscator. Latimer. Ridley. San-
dys. Chytræus. Augsburg Confession. Catechism of the time of Edward
Sixth. Becon. Leo Juda. Bullinger. Knox. Perkins. Calvin. Osian
der. Flacius. Luther's Expectation of the judgment near-yearnings for
its coming. Melancthon. Bale. Foxe. Brightman. Pareus.

CHAPTER VII.

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The seventeenth century. The illustrious Mede. Millennarianism rises to

eminence. No creed opposed to it. Twisse. Usher. Maton Adams.

Goodwin Reformers view the end approaching. Milton, the Christian Homer.

Janeway. Baxter. Ambrose. Durant. Alleine. Taylor. Watson. West-

minster Assembly Divines. Most of them believed in Christ's personal reign.

Rutherford. Heart yearnings. Farmer. Sterry. Burroughs Vincent.

Hall. Anti-millennarian testimony. Bunyan. Baptists of 1660. Bough-

ton. Hall. Beverly. Tillinghast. Prideaux. Jurieu. Charnock. Henry's

Golden Thoughts. Burnet Cressener. Ames. Howe. Mennonites.

Cocceius. Davenant. Alstead. Napier. Many voices. Post-millennialism

had no where an existence.

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CHAPTER VIII.

Voice of the church in the eighteenth century. History continued. A new
millennial view but not a divine one. Fleming. Whitby. Rise of Post-mil-
ennialisın. A new Hypothesis, with comments upon it by Henshaw,

Woodhouse, Russell, and Duffield. Increase Mather. Whitby's view re-

-jected. The early view maintained. Isaac Newton. Wells. Daubuz

Gill. Bengel. Doddridge. John Wesley. Newcome. Bishop Newton.

Lancaster. Watts. Pirie. Hort. Cotton Mather. Whitefield. Benson.

C. Wesley. Early Methodism. Hall. Fletcher. Perry. Toplady. Ro-

inaine. Cowper. Coke. Scott. Glas. Spalding. Lowth. Rudd. Hussey.

Pope. Dow. Lambert. Heber. Prince. Gale. Dr. Clarke's admissions.

Character of the times.

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CHAPTER IX.

Doom of Antichrist. The grand argument. Principles of interpretation.

What Paul meant. Barnabas' view. Justin. Irenæus. Antichrist to

come. Cyprian. Hippolytus. Origen. Tertullian. Lactantius. Cyril.

Gregory. Ambrose. Chrysostom. Evagrius. Jerome. Hilarion. Theo-

doret. Augustine. Cassidorus. Andreas. Antichrist come. Pope Gre-

gory. Time of the Papal rise. Serenus. Alcuin. Paulinus. Agobard.

Claude. Arnulph. Gonthier. Tergand. Berenger. Bernard. Arnold.

Peter De Bruys. Joachim. Peter Olive and others. Waldenses. Walter

Brute and others. Huss. Jerome. Wickliff. Protestantism and what the

Pope knows."

Epiphania" and " Parousia." Lexicographers. Fifty testi

monies concerning Antichrist's doom. The Advent Pre-millennial. 293

The nineteenth century. List of
preached everywhere. The Day
Thirty church creeds. Adventism.

CHAPTER X.

Bur Warrant. Criticisms on Dan. 12: 4.

Millennarian authors. The doctrine

near. Voice of the church, her creeds.

No church creed inculcates a post-millennial advent. The first resurrection.

Many churches endorse the doctrine. The Lord at hand. A solemn

charge.

CHAPTER XI.

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Extracts. The Startling Cry-He Cometh, by Krummacher. Signs of the

Times, by Charlotte Elizabeth. First Resurrection, by Stuart. Advent

Experience, by Charlotte Elizabeth. The New Earth, by Chalmers. The

Vindication and Great Incentive, by Bonar. The Blessed Hope, by Andrews.

The Solemn Warning, from the Journal of Prophecy. Home-The Final

Farewell, by Dr. Cumming. Author's Adieu. Dying Words-"Tell the

Church to hold on till Christ comes !"

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Comparative Chronological Table,

APPENDIX.

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