GEORGE DUFFIELD,

PASTOR OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DETROIT.

"I cannot believe that truth can be prejudiced by the discovery of truth, but I
fear that the maintenance thereof by fallacy or falsehood may not end with a
blessing."-MEDE.

NEW YORK
PUBLIC

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY DAYTON & NEWMAN,

199 Broadway.

1842.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by

DAYTON & NEWMAN,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

S. W. BENEDICT, PRINT.

THE DUTY OF STUDYING THE PROPHECIES, AND THE OB-

JECTIONS COMMONLY URGED AGAINST IT,

CHAPTER II.

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THE SYSTEM OF INTERPRETATION. THE NATURE OF

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE,

CHAPTER V.

THE SYSTEM OF INTERPRETATION.-SYMBOLICAL AND

TYPICAL LANGUAGE

CHAPTER VI.

A GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE LITERAL AND SPIRITUAL

SYSTEM OF INTERPRETING THE PROPHECIES,

CHAPTER VII.

TRADITIONARY HISTORY,

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THE PRINCIPLES OF INTERPRETATION APPLIED, AND THE

SECOND COMING OF CHRIST SHOWN TO BE PRE-MILLE-

NIAL,

CHAPTER XI.

THE COMING OF CHRIST PRE-MILLENIAL, OR PRIOR TO THE

DESTRUCTION OF POPERY,

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CHAPTER XII.

THE NATURE OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT SUPPOSED TO

AFFORD AN OBJECTION AGAINST THE PRE-MILLENIAL

COMING OF CHRIST,

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