An Exposition of the Prophecies Author:John Dowling 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: CHAPTER II. MR. MILLER'S DOCTRINE STATED. Section 1.—General View, The two chief peculiarities by which Mr. Miller's book is distinguished, are, I. Tha... more »t the coming of Christ spoken of in the following and kindred passages in the Old and New Testament, is not to follow, but to precede the Millenium, or latter day glory, (by whatever name it may be called,) when "the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth," and " the saints shall live and reign with Christ a thousand years," viz. : " When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory : And before him shall be gathered all nations."—Matthew, 25 : 31, 32. " For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel. and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clondt, 1o meet the Lord inthe air : and so shall we ever be with the Lord."—/. Thes. 4: 16, 17. " Behold he cometh with clouds : and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him : and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him."—Rev. 1: 7. II. That the solemn event described in the above passages is at hand, even at the door, and that " about the year 1843," as expressed in the title page of Mr. M.'s book, we are to expect " THE SECOND COMING OF CUBIST." In both of these articles Mr. M. has adopted a belief entirely different from that which is held by the great body of evangelical christians. It is not, however, my intention to follow him through the various statements (arguments I cannot call them) scattered throughout the book, by which he endeavors to establish the first of these positions, viz. his doctrine of t...« less