The Chronological Prophecies Author:Frederick Nolan Subtitle: As Constituting a Connected System in Which the Principal Events of the Divine Dispensations Are Determined by the Precise Revelation of Their Dates; Demonstrated in a Series of Lects. Delivered in the Years 1833,1834,1835,1836 on the Foundation of the Late Bishop Warburton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication da... more »te: 1837 Original Publisher: Pickering Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 26 LECTURE II. 2 Kings, xvn. 22, 23. " For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day." To the mind which is merely conversant with the usual course of events, which is accustomed to trace common occurrences to ordinary causes, the reverses which are here described may be not unnaturally supposed to present an instance merely of the mutability of human affairs, which is generally ascribed to accident or fortune. The difficulties which they present to the cursory observer, in referring them to more than natural causes, are not a little increased by the obstacles opposed to the endeavour of him who would reconcile them with the privileges of a race, who laid claim to a divine election; difficulties which increase in their magnitude, as the distance appeals extended between the differentstates, as prosperous and adverse, which were experienced by the chosen people. The reverses sustained by the nation, which, from enjoying the blessings of abundance and happiness, are reduced to the privations and misery, entailed by conquest and captivity, may be readily conceived, ...« less