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THE

SECOND ADVENT;

OR, THE

GLORIOUS EPIPHANY

Author of a

OF OUR

LORD JESUS CHRIST:

BEING AN ATTEMPT TO ELUCIDATE, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORder,

THE PROPHECIES

BOTH OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,

WHICH RELATE

TO THE APPROACHING APPEARANCE OF THE REDEEMER, AND "THE
MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD"-TO THE JUDGMENT

OF THE APOSTATE NATIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH-
THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL-

AND THE ERECTION OF THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST UPON EARTH.

BY THE REV. JOHN FRY, B. A.

(Late of University College, Oxford,)

RECTOR OF DESFORD, IN LEICESTERSHIRE;
"New Translation and Exposition of the Canticles;" "Expository
Lectures on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans ;" and of a
"New
Translation and Exposition of the Psalms," &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

"There is scarce a prophecy in the Old Testament concerning Christ, which doth not
in something or other relate to his second coming."-SIR ISAAC NEWTON.

"Whom the heavens must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which
God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.”—Acts, iii. 21.
"Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall be find faith on the earth?"-Luke,
xviii. 8.

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CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

PART THE SECOND.

CHAPTER THE FIFTH,

SECT.

CONTINUED.

THE PROPHETS OF THE ERA OF THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY.

SECT. XVII. Nebuchadnezzar's Dream, Dan. ii.

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XVIII. Daniel's Vision of the Four Empires, vii.

XIX. The Vision of the Ram and He-goat, viii....

XX. Some Remarks on the Prophecy of the

Seventy Weeks, ix. .....

XXI. The last Prophecy in Daniel

CHAPTER THE SIXTH.

EXTRACTS FROM THE PROPHETS AFTER THE RESTORATION.

SECT. I. Haggai, ii. 3, &c., 22, 23

..

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II. Zechariah, i. 20, &c., ii. 10, &c., viii. 23,

ix. 8, &c.

III. Chapters xi., xii., xiii., xiv.

IV. Malachi, iii., &c., iv. 1, &c.

PART THE THIRD,

PROPHECIES RELATING TO THE SECOND ADVENT IN THE

NEW TESTAMENT.

CHAPTER THE FIRST.

THE GOSPELS AND THE ACTS.

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I. The Annunciation, Luke, i. 31, &c.

II. Nathaniel's Confession, John, i.

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129

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SECT. III. Some Expressions in the Sermon on the Mount,

Matt. v., and in the Lord's Prayer...... 141

IV. Close of the Parable of the Tares, Matt. xiii.

V. The Transfiguration

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144

147

VI. Luke, xii. 32, &c., xiii. 32, &c., xviii. 6...... 153

VII. The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard,

and of the Pounds......

157

VIII. Remarks on the Confutation of the Sadducees 166

IX. Our Lord's own Prophecies respecting his

Second Coming...

168

X. Matt. xxvi. 29, Luke, xx. 28, Matt. xxv. 24.. 202

XI. Some Passages in Acts, i. and iii.

CHAPTER THE SECOND.

THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES.

204

SECT.

I. 1 Thess. iv. 13, &c....

207

II. 2 Thess. ii., with 1 Tim. iv. and 2 Tim. iii.

III. 1 Cor. vi. 22, and xv.

VII. Heb.. ix. 27, 28, Tit. ii. 11, with 2 Tim. iv. 6,

and 1 Thess. i. 9, iii. 5.

266

VIII. 1 Pet. i. 5-13, 2 Pet. i. 16, iii. 2, Jude, 14,

1 John, iii. 1, 2, 3.

269

II. Some Remarks on Parts of the Epistles to

the Seven Churches, particularly on

Chap. ii. 25, &c., and on Chap. iii. 20. 293

III. The Opening of the Main Vision

IV. The First Seal