MILLENNARIANISM UNSCRIPTURAL; OR A GLANCE AT SOME OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT THEORY. "Before adopting such a principle of interpretation, let us observe the BEGG. LONDON:-WILLIAM CROFTS, 19, CHANCERY LANE. MDCCCXXXVIII. PREFACE. No man is pleased to be charged with failure, even as to an object which he had not aimed to accomplish. The Author, therefore, among other more obvious reasons, has this also for giving a brief explanation of his design in the following little Work: -: It 1. He will first express what his design is not. is neither to state, nor to defend, anti-millennarian interpretations of particular passages of Scripture, alleged by Millennarians to be favourable to their cause. When such happen to lie in the way of the general reasoning of the Author, he occasionally does so; but, strictly speaking, this forms no part of his immediate object. Neither is it to refute the arguments adduced by Millennarians, generally, in support of their Theory; |