ELEMENTS OF PROPHETICAL INTERPRETATION. BY THE REV. J. W. BROOKS, VICAR OF CLARebro', retford. AUTHOR OF "ABDIEL'S ESSAYS," ON THE ADVENT AND PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE: AND SOLD BY L. AND G. SEELEY, FLEET STREET, LONDON. MDCCCXXXVI. TO THE REV. EDWARD BICKERSTETH, RECTOR OF WATTON, HERTS. DEAR CHRISTIAN FRIEND, THE feelings of my heart, combined with the circumstances of the case, prompt me to inscribe this volume to you, who are instrumentally the cause of its appearance, and to whom I am indebted for many suggestions afforded me during its progress. I may indeed truly assert, that I should not have entered on the work but at your solicitation; and had you not urged on me the undertaking, as a duty which I owed to the Church of Christ. Not that I would have any infer from this, that you fully accord with all that the book contains: for though I believe that we have been led into the same views in the general, and I trust by the guidance of the Spirit of God; yet am I bound to acknowledge that there are in the latter chapters some particulars, concerning which you either differ or are disposed to hesitate. In regard to the topics of the two latter chapters, I would state farther, in the way of apology for their appearance, that had I not been in a measure com |