but, as the printing advanced, it was found that it would swell the work to an inconvenient bulk; and it will therefore be embodied in a separate Volume, which will shortly be published, and which will also contain the APOCALYPSE, in the ORIGINAL GREEK, from the best Manuscripts, and a revised ENGLISH VERSION, and HARMONY, with NOTES.

Cloisters, Westminster Abbey,

Jan. 26, 1849.

Characteristics of the Apocalypse; Seal of the Bible.

Literal interpretation of prophetical, figurative, language

From the Rabbinical idea of a Sabbatical Millennium.

Influence of this doctrine on the Apocalypse

A Parallel in the case of the Epistle to the Hebrews

Caius, the Roman Presbyter

Reflections on the above facts

Recovery .

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4

ib.

4, 5

5

6, 11

6

5, 17, 18

St. Jerome His language concerning a Millennium

St. Augustine-His language on the same subject

The doctrine of a Millennium called heretical

Not known in the Church for a thousand years.

Testimonies on this subject, of Cornelius a Lapide, Tillemont,

Dr. Barrow, Dr. Hammond, Bishop Andrewes

Dr. Lightfoot

20

21, 64

21,67

31, 50, 53

Judgment of the Catholic Church on the Millennium

Judgment of eminent continental Reformers on the same

subject.

Judgment of the Augsburgh Confession

Judgment of the Church of England

Article of King Edward VI.

Thirty-nine Articles

English Liturgy

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21, 22

22

22, 23

23, 26

23

ib.

24

ib.

ib.

25, 26

27

Warnings against this doctrine.

Pleas of its advocates-Reply

This doctrine, grounded on Judaistic notions, on oral tradition,

and on erroneous notions of the Plan of the Apocalypse .

The true view of that Plan, and especially of the Twentieth

Chapter

How Scripture is to be interpreted

28

28-31

The Millenarian doctrine "repugnant to Scripture”—Proof of

this

And to the teaching of the Church

Apology for some ancient Millenarians; their case very different

from that of modern ones

LECTURE II.

On the Doctrine of a Millennium.

39, 40

Recapitulation.

Warnings to younger students concerning Scripture Interpreta-
tion

What is Scripture; and what is not

How the Saints reign, and to them judgment is given

Proofs of Inspiration from the peculiar character of the Apo-

77,78

The persons addressed in the Apocalypse; and in what terms 82-84

Arguments from this.

85-87

How was the Apocalypse received by the Bishops and Churches

of Asia, to whom it is addressed

87-92

A mark of heresy, not to receive the Apocalypse

93

Reflections on this evidence

ib.

Date of the Apocalypse

Evidence of St. John himself

Canon of Council of Toledo; on reading the Apocalypse in the

95

95-98

On the relation of the Apocalypse to the Canon of Scripture.

The Seal of the Bible

Illustration and confirmation of this from Apocalyptic Symbols.

Cautions respecting the Exposition of the Apocalypse

Symbols in Chap. IV.

The Rainbow

The Crystal Sea

The Seven Spirits

The Voices and Thunders.

The Four Living Creatures

The Four-and-Twenty Elders

Application of the Exposition of these Symbols

St. John's office in closing the Canon of Scripture

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1, 111

111

112, 113

113, 114

The piercing of our Lord's side, how made subservient to the

proof of our Lord's Resurrection, and of our Justification, and

of our future Resurrection

Practical Exhortations

P. 138, 1. 4 from bottom, dele "the anniversary of."

152-154

156-160