AN
EXPOSITION,
W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N
S,
OF THE
R
E V E L A T I O N O F S T. J O H N
T
H E D I V I N E
IT
ought to be no prejudice to the credit and authority of this book that it has
been rejected by men of corrupt minds, such as Cerdon and Marcion, and doubted
of by men of a better character; for this has been the lot of other parts of
holy writ, and of the divine Author of the scripture himself. The image and
superscription of this book are truly sacred and divine, and the matter of it
agreeable with other prophetical books, particularly Ezekiel and Daniel; the
church
of
God
has generally received it, and found good counsel and
great comfort in it. From the beginning, the
church
of
God
has been blessed with prophecy. That glorious prediction
of breaking the serpent's head was the stay and support of the patriarchal
age; and the many prophecies there were concerning the Messiah to come were
the gospel of the Old Testament. Christ himself prophesied of the destruction
of Jerusalem; and, about the time in which that was accomplished, he entrusted
the apostle John with this book of revelation, to deliver it to the church as
a prediction of the most important events that should happen to it to the end
of time, for the support of the faith of his people and the direction of their
hope. It is called the Revelation, because God therein discovers those
things which could never have been sifted out by the reasonings of human
understanding, those deep things of God which no man knows, but the Spirit of
God, and those to whom he reveals them.
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