The Quarterly journal of prophecy - 1852 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 85 Uebictos. Pre-millennialism a Delusion. By a Member of the Presbytery of Northumberland. Johustone and Hunter. 1851. We did not intend to return to t... more »his volume. Its title was singularly unbecoming, and not calculated to win. Its unmeekness, egotism, and overweening vanity, were not likely to make it attractive to any one in whose estimation humility and modesty are Christian graces. Its extraordinary and exclusive assumption of learning, logic, criticism, metaphysics, theology, were not fitted to recommend it to any inquirer after truth. Its avoidance of all argument and preference for oracular statement, rendered it quite innocuous. Its entire antagonism in most points to Mr. Brown's work seemed to give it chiefly the air of an attack upon all former defenders of the author's own theory, as if he had come forward to proclaim how entirely dissatisfied he was with their mode of defence, and his conviction that now, for the first time, Post-millennialism had found a champion worthy of it, and Pre-millennialism an adversary whose every argument is, by itself, an absolute demonstration,—an adversary who has taken the difficulties attaching to our system, and laid them on it " like an annihilating incubus " (p. 138) ; who, though he has " no wish to rake in the dust-heaps to bring to light the delusions and worse in whose company this theory has not seldom been found," yet hints to us with most significant complacency, that we owe a great deal to his forbearance in this respect, for he has the power, though not the "wish, to call Church history to give the testimony it is well competent to do, not only to show what sort of company this theory has kept, but to shew that it occupies the place in many of the delusions which not a few criminals have assigned to Sabbath-breaking...« less