Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848Various
History
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
The other prediction, or rather prophetic deduction from analytical
interpretations of the Book of Revelations, to which allusion has been
made, is too singular not to take its place also among these supposed
"foreshadowings of coming events." At the same time, we do not attempt
to rank it in any way in the same category with those strange and
doubtful revelations already given. It is based upon a system of
reasoning and calculation: a key is given as the real and true one,
for the opening of the door of mysteries of acknowledged divine
origin. How far this key may be the right one or the wrong, or how far
it may be permitted to use it, are, once more, subjects for
disquisition into which it is not for us to enter. The contrast
between the nature of the revelations of the Roman Catholic ascetics,
and of those of the Protestant clergyman, is striking enough to
preclude any analogy between them. On the one hand, we have confident
predictions; on the other, the cool, calm, searching, calculations of
a system of minute reasoning;--on the one, the supposed bestowal of
the flash of light; on the other, the careful groping in the mystical
darkness of sacred writings, in order with true conscience to find the
right way;--on the one, the pictorial, graphic, highly-coloured
language of the presumed "_divine afflatus_;" on the other, the
deductions of speculative reasoning;--on the one, the supposed flame
coming from above; on the other, the cautious steps planted on the
earth;--in short, on the one, supposed inspiration; on the other,
evident and acknowledged reason. We do not pretend to class them
together; but as they all refer to the same periods of history, they
find mention together in this notice.
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