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14 FEB 1930

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LORD ARCHBISHOP

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My LORD,

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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 itfelf to your GRACE and others, I cannot pretend to fay but having been perufed by the fame three eminently learned perfons as the former volumes, it may be prefumed on that account to be lefs unfit A 2 for

for me to offer, and for Your GRACE to receive. At the fame 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 handfome manner of conferring them, unfollicited, unafked, unexpected. I will not fay undeferved, because that would be calling Your GRACE's judgment in queftion; but I will endevor to deferve them: and indeed I fhould think any preferment ill bestowed upon me, that did not incite and animate me more to profecute my ftudies, and thereby to prove myself more worthy of Your GRACE's favor and kindness to,

My LORD,

Your GRACE's ever obliged

and dutiful bumble fervant,

Nov. 3. 1758.

THOMAS NEWTON.

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Very useful to trace the rife and progrefs of religions and governments; p. 1. None more wonderful than that of Rome in its fuccefs and prevalence; p. I, 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. This book difficult to explain; p. 5. A memorable ftory to this purpofe, of Bishop Lloyd of Worcefter; p. 5, 6. This book not therefore to be defpifed or neglected; p. 6. The right method of interpreting it; p. 7, 8. What helps and

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affiftances are requifite; p. 8. Hard fate of the beft interpreters of this book; p. 9. Great encouragement however in the divine benediction;

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CHAP. I. ver. 1, 2, 3: contain the title of the book, the scope and design of it, and the bleffing on him that readeth, and on them that attend to it; p. 10. Ver. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8: the dedication to the feven churches of Afia, and a folemn preface to fhow the great authority of the divine revealer ; p. 11, 12. Ver. 9-20: the place, the time, and manner of the firft vifion; p. 12-19. The place, Patmos, whither St. John was banished in the reign of Nero more probably than in that of Domitian; p. 14. The arguments for this opinion; p. 15, 16, 17. The Revelation given on the Lord's day; p. 18. The manner and circumftances of the first vision; p. 18, 19. CHAP. II. III. contain the feven epiftles to the seven churches of Afia; p. 19-41. Why thefe feven addreffed particularly; p. 27, 28. These epiftles not prophetical, but peculiar to the church of that age; p. 28. The excellent form and structure of these epiftles; p. 29. In what sense they may be faid to be prophetical; p. 29, 30. Prefent ftate of the feven churches; p. 31-41. Of Ephesus; p. 31, 32. Of Smyrna; P. 32, 33. Of Pergamus; p. 33, 34. Of Thyatira; p. 35, 36. Of Sardis; p. 36, 37. Of Philadelphia; p. 37, 38. Of Laodicea; p. 39, 40. Ufe that we are to make of thefe judgments; p. 41.

CHAP. IV. the preparatory vifion to things which must be hereafter; p. 42---46. The fcenery drawn in allufion to the incampment of the children of Ifrael in the wilderness, and to the tabernacle or temple; p. 44, 45, 46.

CHAP. V. a continuation of the preparatory vifion

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