Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848Various
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
Prophecies and miracles, we are told, have long since ceased upon the
earth, as permitted only, by Divine goodness, to those ages when faith
was not firmly established, and revelation needed the active and
visible interference of Divine influence to make its way into the
heart of obstinate and denying man. This is a doctrine which, in these
present times of reason, we are naturally inclined to accept. But yet
there are circumstances, occurring even in our day, which sometimes
surprise the imagination, and even startle that reason which is so
ready to assert its supremacy. It is thus that we have regarded with
much curiosity, more wonder, and an impression which it is difficult
to drive away from our minds, certain strange documents relative to
the most important events of modern history, which, if their
authenticity be accepted, are among the most striking revelations
emanating from a prophetic spirit. They appear before us avowed
prophecies, coming from seemingly well-authenticated sources, and
backed by such assurances in the genuineness of their antiquity, from
credible mouths, as takes off from them that paulo-post-future sort of
suspicion, that inevitably attaches itself to predictions, which make
their appearance to the world after fulfilment. In laying them before
our readers, we are able to offer some little proof, as far as it
goes, in support of their authenticity; and we still call to them the
attention of those who may nevertheless refuse their credence, as
highly interesting documents of a strange character, relating to past,
present, and even future political events. As they do, in truth, refer
also to a future still to be accomplished, as well as to the present,
our readers, it is to be hoped, may be able to judge for themselves
how far the predictions as to the future will bear out those which now
already relate to the past, and to what, if such an expression may be
pardoned, might be called the present just gone by.
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