_CONTEMPORARY EVIDENCE._
The Apostle John the author of the Apocalypse--Importance of the
admission--The precise date of its composition--Its allegorical
character--"Pilgrim's Progress" and "Paradise Lost and Regained"--The
doctrines indicated in the Apocalypse--Rome the mystical Babylon--
Nero Cæsar--The number of the beast--The Lord's day--Prominence
of the allusion to the Lamb slain to take away sin--Paul's epistles
identical in doctrine with the Apocalypse--Professor Owen--Quotation
from "The Merchant of Venice" 163