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Excerpt from Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, and at This Time Are Fulfilling in the World, Vol. 1 of 2 How and by whom the author was appointed to preach the boyle's'leéture, 257, 258. Previous to the farther ex planation of Daniel, a vindication is propofed of the ge nuinenefs of his prophecies, againft the principal objeftioris of unbelievers, 258. Collins' eleven objef'tions, particu larly confidered and refuted, 258. His firft objection, res Iating to the age of Daniel, refuted, 258, 259. His fecond objection, relating to the mifiake of the kings names, and to Nebuchadnezzar's madnefs, refuted, 259, 260. His third objeflion, relating to the, Greek words found in Da niel, refuted, 260. His fourth objeétion, relating to the verfion of the Seventy, refuted, 260, 261. His fifth oh jeé'tion, drawn from the clearnefs of Daniel's prophecies to the times of Antiochus Epiphanes, refuted, 261. His fixth objeftion, drawn from the omiflion of Daniel in the book of Ecclefiafticus; refuted, 261, 262. His feventh' objeétion, relating to Jonathan's making no Tat-gum on Daniel, refuted, 262. His eighth objection, drawn from the ite of Daniel's Chaldee, refuted, 262, 263. His ninth objection, drawn from the forgeries of the Jews, re futed, 263. His tenth objection, drawn from Daniel's uncommon punétuality in fixing the times, refuted, 263, 264. His eleventh objeétion, relating to Daniel's fetting forth facts very imperfeélly, and contrary to other hiftories, and to his dark and emblematic fiyle, refuted, 264, 265. The external and internal evidence for the genuinenefs of the book of Daniel, 265. The divifion of the remainder of this work, agreeable to the defign of the honourable founder, 265, 266. From the infiance of this excellent perfon, and fome others, it is fhown that philofophy and religion may well confift and agree together, 266. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
