1843_Two Discourses On Prophecy (Miller critiques).pdf

TWO

DISCOURSES

011

WITH

AN APPENDIX

m WHICH MR. MILLER'S SCHGIIIE, CONCERNING OW LOXD'I

BECOND ADVENT, IS CONBIDERED AND EEPUTED.

BY SAMUEL FARMAR JARVIS, D.D., LL.D.

hhlyto be the author of a false interpretathn of krlptun, b to taka God'#

nuus in vain, in s LLgb degree.-Jomrm MCDI.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES A. SPARKB,

No. 109 Nassau Btreet.

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Entered ding b the act d Collgmm, Ln the year 1843, by

JAMES A. BPABg8,

In the Clerk's of&e of the Diatrict Court for the Soutbern Distrjct of New York.

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TO THE HONORABLE JAMES KENT, LL.D.,

the

pleasantest day you had spent during your journey, you added : 6' But

do you know whet a load of responsibility the possession of there

books lays upon yon 7 You are bound to make known the treaewm

they contain, to your wuntrymen." Your words dwelt on my

memory, animated my exertions, and cheered me in the midst of toil

and trouble. And thongh circumstances have long prevented my

giving In the public any fruits of my labors, yet I hare been con-

stantly at work, and am now prepard to begin a series of pnbliea-

tions. Thia little volume may be considered as the fist fruits. To

whom can 1,dedicate it with more propriety than to yon 1 I hope

you will do me the favor to accept the offering, small though it be, M

a feeble tribute of that respect for your exalted character, and that

admiration of your profound learning, with which I have the honor

to remain,

Yoor grateful friend,

and faithfal ermnt,

THE AUTHOR.

&DDLETOWN, CONNEC~TCUT,

Jmc, 1843.

Yon doubtless have forgotten, though I never can forget, your

words to me in 1836, when yon pwed a morning in my library at

Washington College, in H'artford. After declaring that it ~.s

PREFACE:

THE AUTHORof these Discourses has been, for tbe last

three or four years, engaged in preparing for the prera

his introductory volume of Ecclesiastical History ; and

in order to adjust the dates of the birth and death of our

Lord Jesus Christ, he has been led to go rather largely

into a\n examination of ancient chronology. It is for

thia reaaon probably, that during the excitement occa-

sioned by the writings of Mr. Miller, and the preaching

of hiinself and his followers, on the second advent, the

author has been often asked for his opinion concerning

the calculations which have produced such extraordi-

nary results. Me was very unwilling to go into the

subject, for two reasons : first, because it would neces-

sarily, for a time, divert his thoughts from the principal

subject of his meditations; and secondly, because the

unerring hand of HIMwho, with regard to the future a41

well as the past, is his own interpreter, would soon allay

the ferment. But his re-erve and caution were misin-

terpreted. . Much to his surprise he learned, by letters

from various quarters, that Mr. Miller's preachers had

made use of his name,.and had asserted, to use their om

language, thnt he "agreed with Mr. Miller in believing

that the visions of Daniel ran out in 1843." He owed it,

therefore, to himself, and to the church whose servant

he is, publicly to contradict the calumny. He did thir,

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