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RETFORD:

PRINTED BY T. AND G. TURVEY.

THE

INVESTIGATOR & EXPOSITOR

OF

PROPHECY.

Entroductory Observations.

THE commencement of a New Series of the INVESTIGATOR OF PROPHECY, and the commencement of a New Year of existence, both invite us to make a few introductory ob

servations.

I. To the Reader who only enters on the perusal of our Work with the present Number, and who is consequently unacquainted with what was written by us in the Postscript of the last Number, we would take the opportunity of stating, what is the difference proposed by us in the Volume now commenced, which gives occasion to our calling it a New Series.

The former numbers of the Investigator, amounting now to four volumes, were conducted on the principle of free discussion; so that whatsoever views were entertained by serious Christians on the subject of prophecy, we considered ourselves pledged to give them insertion, provided they were advanced with tolerable ability and with gravity. This has produced a mass of communications, containing articles greatly at variance with each other, as regards the prophetical views advocated by their respective authors,

and provoking on some points considerable controversy. The result has been, that though much learned and interesting matter has been brought before the public, the student of prophecy, who was only entering on the investigation thereof, found himself embarrassed in the outset by contradictory interpretations and conflicting views. Besides which, the matter which we had ourselves previously designed to bring forward, and which we sometimes considered important in the way of information, was continually postponed, from the necessity of giving immediate insertion to the papers of Correspondents, who were committed in discussion: and thus the Work was, in another important point of view, rendered less useful to the inquirer.

Without therefore stating other considerations, which have personally weighed with us, it is sufficient to observe, that we hope in the present series to remedy these two principal defects; and by the exclusion of articles, the insertion of which we should deem unprofitable, and by appending notes to those we do insert, whenever we consider the subJanuary, 1836.

No. 1 New Series. (Vol. v. No. 43.) .

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