An examination of the Lord Bishop of London's discourses concerning the use and intent of prophecy. With Some cursory Animadversions on his late Appendix, or Additional Dissertation, Containing a farther Inquiry into the Mosaic Account of the Fall. In which These following Points are chiefly explaned and affirmed. I. That the use of Prophecy, as it was taught and practised by Christ, His Apostles, and Evangelists, was drawn intirely from single and separate praedictions, gathered by them from the books of the Law and the Prophets, and applied, independently on each other, to the several acts and circumstances of the Life of Jesus, as so many distinct proofs of his Divine Mission, And consequently, that His Lordship's pretended chain of Antediluvian Prophecies, is nothing else, but a fancifull conceit, which has no connection at all with the evidences of the Gospel. II. That the Bishop's exposition of his text is forced, unnatural, and inconsistent with the sense of St. Peter, from whos

People / Organizations

• Conyers Middleton (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for R. Manby and H. S. Cox, MDCCL. [1750]

Publication year

1750-1750

ESTC No.

T33656

Grub Street ID

264196

Description

[2],198p. ; 8⁰