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<div2 id="Rev.i" n="i" next="Rev.ii" prev="Rev" progress="94.27%" title="Introduction">
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<div class="Center" id="Rev.i-p0.1"><h2 id="Rev.i-p0.2">Revelation</h2>
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<p id="Rev.i-p1">Completed by <span class="smallcaps" id="Rev.i-p1.1">William Tong</span>.</p>
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</div>
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<hr/>
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<pb id="Rev.i-Page_1118" n="1118"/>
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<div class="Center" id="Rev.i-p1.3">
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<p id="Rev.i-p2"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="Rev.i-p2.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="Rev.i-p2.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="Rev.i-p2.3">OF THE</h5>
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<h2 id="Rev.i-p2.4">R E V E L A T I O N O F S T.
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J O H N</h2>
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<h4 id="Rev.i-p2.5">THE DIVINE.</h4>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="Rev.i-p3"><span class="smallcaps" id="Rev.i-p3.1">It</span> ought to
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be no prejudice to the credit and authority of this book that it
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has been rejected by men of corrupt minds, such as Cerdon and
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Marcion, and doubted of by men of a better character; for this has
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been the lot of other parts of holy writ, and of the divine Author
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of the scripture himself. The image and superscription of this book
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are truly sacred and divine, and the matter of it agreeable with
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other prophetical books, particularly Ezekiel and Daniel; the
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church of God has generally received it, and found good counsel and
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great comfort in it. From the beginning, the church of God has been
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blessed with prophecy. That glorious prediction of breaking the
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serpent's head was the stay and support of the patriarchal age; and
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the many prophecies there were concerning the Messiah to come were
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the gospel of the Old Testament. Christ himself prophesied of the
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destruction of Jerusalem; and, about the time in which that was
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accomplished, he entrusted the apostle John with this book of
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revelation, to deliver it to the church as a prediction of the most
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important events that should happen to it to the end of time, for
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the support of the faith of his people and the direction of their
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hope. It is called the <i>Revelation,</i> because God therein
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discovers those things which could never have been sifted out by
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the reasonings of human understanding, those deep things of God
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which no man knows, but the Spirit of God, and those to whom he
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reveals them.</p>
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</div2>
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