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Excerpt from The Morning Watch, or Quarterly Journal on Prophecy, and Theological Review, 1829, Vol. 1 Produce your cause, saith the Lord: bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of J ecob. Let them bring them forth, and shew os what shall happen; let them shew the former things what the be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of t em; or declare as things for to come. (isai. Xli. Thus strongly doth the Lord appeal to Pro phecy, as the surest test of the true God, and rest the evidence of his own Deity on the truth of his prophetic word. And with a cogency equal to the strength of the appeal. And with a solemnity commensurate with our reverence for God, do we feel ourselves called on to take up the alignment, and vindicate our study of that portion of his word, which is both a pole-star to direct our course, and an anchor of safety to the soul; and which we have special reason to make sure of now, when a storm seems gathering in the horizon, in which we shall need both light to steer by, and a sure and stedfast anchor to rely ou, which entereth within the veil. (heb. Vi. All mankind endeavour to provide for the future; the natural man by natural sagacity, the spiritual man by spiritual discernment natural sagacity calculates on probabilities founded on expe ricuce, spiritual discernment looks to the declared purpose of God. But there are many who belong not strictly to either of these classes, who endeavour to separate between spiritual and temporal things; and, while content to take direction ih' spiritual things from the word of God, expect no direction thence for teinporal afi'airs, and call it presumption in those who dot With vol. L - no. L. 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.