Reflections on Revelations

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. A Knowledge of an author is sometimes necessary to the acceptance and appreciation of his work. I have, therefore, concluded to give a few outlines of the personal history of the humble individual who presents the following Reflections, to the public. I was born of poor and virtuous parents, who...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. A Knowledge of an author is sometimes necessary to the acceptance and appreciation of his work. I have, therefore, concluded to give a few outlines of the personal history of the humble individual who presents the following Reflections, to the public. I was born of poor and virtuous parents, who had at all times a desire to die the death of the righteous. By them I was taught to read and to write, and also arithmetic, which, with a very slight knowledge of a few other branches of learning, was all the useful education their limited means could afford me. I say useful education ? for I was made too well acquainted with the sciences of the papal school. My youth was devoted to hard labor which left little time for literary improvement; and the care of a family, and the life of a farmer succeeding, still prevented attendance of much extent to mental cultivation. This having been my situation in life, I can only hope that the truth which may appear in the following pages, and the sincere desire that they may do good, with which they are presented, will excuse the defects of style and lack of elegance in language, which I am conscious they display. Being little acquainted with the learned languages, I have adhered chiefly to that contained in the Scriptures, which has been through the whole of this little work, my principal guide. A chapter{{Section 4strong conviction of the truths contained in the Word of God, and the blessing promised to those who read and keep the sayings it contains, have urged me to attempt, with what light I could command, and in despite of persecution in my own land, an exposition of the divine mysteries which God in his mercy through Jesus Christ has given to mankind. Many of the prophecies of St. John have evidently been fulfilled; and ...