Dissertations on the prophecies which have remarkably been fulfilled, and at this time are fulfilling in the world / Revised by the Rev. W.S. Dobson.

  • Thomas Newton
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    ing of it, on the breaking down of the great dam in order to take the city. Could the correspondence of these events with the predictions, be the result of chance? But suppose these predictions were forged after the event, can the following ones also have been written after the event ? or with any reason be ascribed to chance? ‘The wild beasts of the desert shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever, neither shall it be dwelt in from ge- neration to generation : as God overthrew Sodom and Gomor- rah, &c. They shall not take of thee a stone for a corner,— but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the Lord :—Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonish- ment and an hissing without an inhabitant :—It shall sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her. Baby- lon, the glory of kingdoms,—shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah: it shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shall the shepherds make their fold there; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and owls shall dwell there.” ‘ Concerning Egypt, was the following prediction forged after the event? or can it, with any reason, be ascribed to chance ? “ Koypt shall be a base kingdom: it shall be the basest of kingdoms, neither shall it exalt itself any more above the na- tions: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.” ‘Concerning Tyre, the prediction is no less remarkable: ‘I will make thee like the top of arock; thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more.—Thou shalt be no more; the merchants among the people shall hiss at thee, thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more. All they that know thee among the people, shall be astonished at thee.” ‘The description of the extent of the dominion of that peo- ple, who were to possess Judea in the latter days; was it forged after the event? or can it reasonably be ascribed to chance ? “‘He shall come with horsemen, and with many ships, and shall overflow and pass over: he shall enter also into the glo- rious land, [and shall plant the tabernacies of his palace be- tween the seas in the glorious holy mountain] and many coun- tries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the coun- tries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over allthe precious things of Egypt ; and the Libyans and Ethio- pians shall be at his RADY . R
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