Two Discourses on Prophecy; With an Appendix in Which Mr. [W.] Miller's Scheme, Concerning Our Lord's Second Advent Is Considered and Refuted baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...written before Mr. Miller's scheme had seen the light, to a young lady who had asked my assistance in the prosecution of these historical studies. Hartford, August 15, 183;"). My Dear Miss S","" I begged Dr. Kemper to acknowledge for me the receipt of your favor of July 27th, and to explain to you why I could not immediately answer it. The questions you proposed had relation to a very d i tiicult part of Chronology: and of course it was impossible to give them a hasty answer. I proceed now without further preface to relieve you from your difficulties, as far as it is in my power. Assuming A. M. 2083 as the date of the calling of Abraham, which was, if I remember correctly, the period at which we had arrived in our examination, Gen. xi. 32, xii. 4, compared with Acts vii. 4, when Terah was dead and Abraham was 75 years old, I proceed as follows: From the calling of Abraham to the Exodus of the children of Israel was 430 years, Exod. xii. 40, 41, compared with Gal. iii. 17, 2083+430= 2513h. Moses was then 80 and Aaron 83. Exod. vii. 7. The wanderings of the children of Israel in the Wilderness 40 years, the death of Mcses at the age of 120, the appointment of Joshua and the entrance into the promised land are all fixed by Deut. i. 3, xxxiv. 7, Joshua i. 2, and bring us to A. M. 2553. How long Joshua ruled Israel we cannot tell from the Scriptures; for though his age, when he died, is mentioned (Josh. xxiv. 29) as being 110 years, yet we know not how old he was when Moses died. We must therefore look forward in the sacred history to some certain date, that we may circumscribe, within as short a space as possible, the period of conjeotural arrangement. therefore to the dilemma, either of enlarging the period between the Exodus and the buildi...