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The EXPECTATIONS FORMED by the ASSYRIANS, that a GREAT DELIVERER WOULD APPEAR, about the time of our Lord’s Advent, demonstrated. By the Rev. Dr. NOLAN. 8vo. price 10s. boards.
Though the volume which is now submitted to the Public contains a subject independent and perfect in itself, the ultimate object of the Author requires it to be stated that, in it, the foundation is laid of a work of considerable extent. Should the final purpose be accomplished, which the present Volume contributes but partially to establish, and the plan of the Author receive a perfect developement, he is sanguine enough to hope that his Work will not be found undeserving of the title under which he purposes the detached parts of it should be combined:—“The Divine Vocation of Abraham demonstrated, from the Expectation, formed by all Nations, that a Great Deliverer would appear about the time of our Lord’s Advent.”
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It is necessary to add, that the subject of the Divine Vocation of Abraham has been treated, in a general and succinct form, in the Course of Lectures, delivered by the Author, on the foundation of the Hon. Robert Boyle. In one of those discourses, the argument, deduced from prophecy, in the Volume now submitted to the Public, was originally produced. Since that time, the Author having noted down, in the course of his reading, which has been various and extensive, whatever appeared to bear upon his subject; the leisure and retirement which he has long enjoyed have enabled him to work it up in its present form, in which the formality of the discourse is abandoned for a more free mode of discussion.
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