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OBSERVATIONS
UPON THE
PROPHECIES
OF
_DANIEL_,
AND THE
APOCALYPSE
OF
St. _JOHN_.
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In Two PARTS.
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By Sir _ISAAC NEWTON_.
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_LONDON,_
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And Sold by J. ROBERTS in _Warwick-lane_, J. TONSON in the
_Strand_, W. INNYS and R. MANBY at the West End of St.
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J. NOON near _Mercers Chapel_ in _Cheapside_,
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_Martin's lane_, J. STAGG in _Westminster-Hall_, J. PARKER in
_Pall-mall_, and J. BRINDLEY in _New Bond-Street_.
M.DCC.XXXIII.
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To the Right Honourable
_P E T E R_
Lord _K I N G_,
Baron of _Ockham_, Lord High Chancellor of _Great-Britain._
My Lord,
_I shall make no Apology for addressing the following Sheets to Your
Lordship, who lived in a long Intercourse of Friendship with the Author;
and, like him, amidst occupations of a different nature, made Religion your
voluntary Study; and in all your Enquiries and Actions, have shewn the same
inflexible Adherence to Truth and Virtue._
_I shall always reckon it one of the Advantages of my Relation to Sir
_Isaac Newton_, that it affords me an opportunity of making this publick
acknowledgment of the unfeigned Respect of_,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's
most obedient, and
most humble Servant,
Benj. Smith.
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CONTENTS.
PART I.
Observations upon the Prophecies of _Daniel_.
CHAP. I. Introduction concerning, the Compilers of the Books of the Old
Testament.
CHAP. II. Of the Prophetic Language.
CHAP. III. Of the vision of the Image composed of four Metals.
CHAP. IV. Of the vision of the four Beasts.
CHAP. V. Of the Kingdoms represented by the feet of the Image composed of
iron and clay.
CHAP. VI. Of the ten Kingdoms represented by the ten horns of the fourth
Beast.
CHAP. VII. Of the eleventh horn of _Daniel_'s fourth Beast.
CHAP. VIII. Of the power of the eleventh horn of _Daniel_'s fourth Beast,
to change times and laws.
CHAP. IX. Of the Kingdoms represented in _Daniel_ by the Ram and He-Goat.
CHAP. X. Of the Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks.
CHAP. XI. Of the Times of the Birth and Passion of Christ.
CHAP. XII. Of the Prophecy of the Scripture of Truth.
CHAP. XIII. Of the King who did according to his will, and magnified
himself above every God, and honoured _Mahuzzims_, and regarded not the
desire of women.
CHAP. XIV. Of the _Mahuzzims_, honoured by the King who doth according to
his will.