REVISED AND EDITED, WITH A PREFACE,

BY H. L. HASTINGS.

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EDITOR OF "THE CHRISTIAN" AND THE LITTLE CHRISTIAN" (AMERICAN).

Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,

S. BAGSTER & SONS, 15, PATERNOSTER ROW.
BOSTON, U.S.A.: H. L. HASTINGS, 47, CORNHILL.

1882.

All Rights reserved.

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY SYNOPSIS.

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

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-

millenialists. 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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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. Apostacy.

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 herosy. 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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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER VIII.

The eighteenth century. History continued. A new millennial view, but

not a divine one. Fleming. Whitby. A "New Hypothesis," with com-

ments upon it by Henshaw, Woodhouse, Russell, and Duffield. Hurd.

Whiston. Reader. Sir Isaac Newton. Wells. Daubuz. Gill. Bengel.

Doddridge. John Wesley. Newcome. Bishop Newton. Lancaster.

Dr. Watts. Pirie. Hort. Horsely. Browne. King. Whitefield. Ben-

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

Romaine. Cooper. Coke. Glas. Homes. Butler. T. Taylor. Lam-

bert. Rudd. Hussey. Pope. Priestley. Dr. A. Clarke's admissions.

Character of the times.

son.

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CHAPTER IX.

Christians in America. Christopher Columbus. The seventeenth century.

New England pastors. Eliot. R. Mather. J. Higginson. J. Dury. J. Baily.

J. Moody. J. Mitchel. Williams. Norton. Bulkley. Shepherd. Cotton.

Huet. Parker. Holyoke. Stoughton. Oaks. Lee. Sewall. Willard. Da-

venport. Cheever, the N. E. school-master. Aspenwell. Hooke. S. Ma-

ther. Clarke. Holmes. The whip and the hope. Whiting. Hutchin-

son. I. Mather. Noyes. No openly avowed post-millennial views cher-

ished among these New England fathers. Whitbyism unknown. Sharp

words from Spalding.

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CHAPTER X.

Christians in America, continued. The eighteenth century. The "New

Hypothesis" obtains with Edwards, Bellamy, and Hopkins. The early

church view still cherished. C. Mather. Bowers. Flint. Webb. Bur-

net. Gookin. Chauncy. Byles. Prince. Siegvolck. Imbrie. Torrey.

Edwards. Marsh. Murray. Gale. Winchester. Fish. Watkins. Cum-

mings. Farnham. Dow. A fair representation. The old faith never

died out. New England Christians have loved His appearing.

CHAPTER XI.

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Prophetic conferences. First conference at Albury, in England, in 1826.

The twenty students. A great cry goes forth. An English opinion. First

conference in America, 1840. Fifteen hundred preachers of His coming.

Time setting. The London conference of 1873. The opinion of a British

earl. The Mildmay Park conference of 1878. The great prophetic con-

ference at New York in 1878. One hundred and twenty-two responses

to its call. Fifty thousand Tribune reports. The addresses. A mighty

theme. A deep interest. Christendom agitated with the question of our

Lord's coming.

CHAPTER XII.

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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