The works of Richard Hurd, volume 5 (of 8)

In the next place, I will freely admit, that the dread, in which most men, if not all men[141], of that time, were held, of incurring the imputation of Schism, was much greater,...

2. I am disposed to believe that the subsequent merit of Daniel might justify the Monarch’s caprice. I will allow, (on the credit of the story of Susanna and the elders) that th...

Why—But I have done with these frivolous interrogatories; which, though pressed with all the advantage of Cicero’s rhetoric, have really no force against _Pagan divination_; and...

It is true, a great scheme of prophecy was once revealed to a Gentile King[35]; but a King, connected with the Jews, and who had a Jewish prophet for his interpreter. It is, bes...

To return then to the text (which implies the existence and use of such a system) and to conclude with it. _The spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus._ This angelic infor...

When the church of Rome, therefore, now pretends, that Antichrist is to be sought in Imperial and Pagan Rome, ye will naturally ask how it came to pass, that the ancient fathers...

It may further be insinuated, “That, if ever Jerusalem was to be destroyed, the obstinate humour of its inhabitants, and the _nature of the place_, would probably draw this dest...

Nor let it be objected that a succession of prophets was _interrupted_ for some ages before the coming of Christ. It was so: but not, till preceding prophets had marked out the...

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4. Lastly, the chief difficulty of all lies in a circumstance, not much observed by interpreters, and, from the nature of it, not _observable_, till after the event; I mean, in...

Now, by putting these passages together, and by comparing them with the predictions of Daniel, not we of these later times only, before whom _the man of sin_ is supposed to be e...

Without doubt, if all the prophecies concerning the Messiah had been penned in the style of the first—_that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head_—though even t...

On the whole, I leave it to be considered, whether, when the prophecies pronounce of Antichrist, that he should be, a power _diverse_ from all others—that he should _sit in the...

[129] MINISTRI CHRISTI SUNT, ET SERVIUNT ANTICHRISTO [_Serm. sup. Cantic._ xxxiii.]—It is true, by Antichrist, he seems not to mean the Pope, but, in general, an evil principle,...

In recounting the various prejudices, which have diverted many persons from giving a due attention to the prophecies concerning Antichrist, I may be thought to have overlooked O...

The publishers of this extraordinary doctrine were, in one word, JEWS: that is, men of the most narrow and contracted minds; men, brought up in the highest conceit of themselves...

If we would know more distinctly what the EXTERIOR FORM of it is; and how it comes to differ so widely from the plan of a chronological arrangement; here, too, our sagacious exp...

In saying this, I do not, however, mean to assert, that the Reformation has no support, but in this principle—_that the Pope is Antichrist_. There are various other consideratio...

4. A fourth objection to the historic truth of the book of Daniel is taken, with more plausibility, from the matter of this law, which, as you truly observe, was very strange fo...

First, he says, _He must himself have been a witness of the prophecy_. But why so? Is there no way of being reasonably assured that a prophecy has been delivered, unless one has...

[202] See Grotius, on the place: who applies this prophecy to Caius Cæsar, and thinks it was fulfilled when that Emperor commanded his statue to be placed in the temple of Jerus...