ΟΝ ΤΗНЕ

PROPHECIES,

Which have remarkably been fulfilled,
and at this time are fulfilling in
the world.

By THOMAS NEWTON, D. D.
Now Lord Bishop of BRISTOL.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME the THIRD.

THE THIRD EDITΙΟΝ.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and R. TONSON in the Strand.

MDCCLXVI.

Zige

LORD ARCHBISHOP

OF

YORK.

My LORD,

THE

HE very favorable opinion that your GRACE was pleased to express of the first part of this work, encourages me to set forth this last under your patronage and protection. This last is the most difficult, but yet it has been to me the most entertaining part of all. How it may approve itself to your GRACE and others, I cannot pretend to say: but having been perused by the same three eminently learned perfons as the former volumes, it may be prefumed on that account to be less unfit

for me to offer, and for Your GRACE to receive. At the same time it affords me an additional pleasure in giving me an opportunity of acknowleging publicly my obligations to your GRACE for favors great in themselves, but made much greater by your handsome manner of conferring them, unfollicited, unasked, unexpected. I will not say undeserved, because that would be calling Your GRACE's judgment in question; but I will endevor to deserve them: and indeed I should think any preferment ill bestowed upon me, that did not incite and animate me more to profecute my studies, and thereby to prove myself more worthy of Your GRACE's favor and kindness to,

THE

CONTENTS

OF THЕ

THIRD VOLUME.

DISSERTATION XXIV.

An ANALYSIS of the REVELATION.

IN TWO PARTS.

PART I.

P. 1-200.

This

Very useful to trace the rife and progress of religi-
ons and governments; p. 1. None more wonder-
ful than that of Rome in its success and preva-
lence; p. 1, 2. This fignified beforehand by
the Spirit of prophecy, and particularly in the
Revelation; p. 3. The objections made to this
book by feveral learned men; p. 3, 4.
book difficult to explain; p. 5. A memorable
story to this purpose, of Bishop Lloyd of Wor-
cester; p. 5, 6. This book not therefore to
be despised or neglected; p. 6. The right me-
thod of interpreting it; p. 7, 8. What helps and
affistances

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