I. Towers Reprints Imposing List of Predictions

JOSEPH LOMAS TOWERS (1767?-1831) ^{1Towers was educated at St. Paul’s School and New College, Hackney, and preached as a Unitarian minister. In 1792 he was made librarian of Dr. Williams’ library, resigning in 1804.} furnishes an example, with his Illustrations of Prophecy, based on predictions in Dan iel and Revelation of “A Revolution in France,” and “The Over throw of the Papal Power, and of Ecclesiastical Tyranny.” (Title page reproduced on page 644). In this unusual treatise there is allusion to and citation of expositors in this imposing list, spreading back over a hundred and fifty years: Brightman (1644), Durham (1660), Mede (1663), More (1680), Goodwin (1683), Jurieu (1687), Cradock (1696), Fleming (1701), Whiston (1706), Waple (1715), Vitringa (1719), Daubuz (1720), Robertson (1730), Pyle (1735), Lowman (1745), Bishop New ton (1748), and Johnson (1794). ^{2The dates in this series refer to time of publication of the various writers’ works} We note but one—Thomas Newton’s (1704-1782) widely quoted observation on France, which was this:PFF2 723.2

“Rome therefore will finally be destroyed by some of the princes, who are reformed, or shall be reformed from popery: and as the kings of France have contributed greatly to her advancement, it is not impossible, nor improbable, that some time or other they may also be the principal authors of her destruction. France hath already shown some tendency to wards a reformation, and therefore may appear more likely to effect such a revolution.” ^{3Cited from Thomas Newton, Dissertations on the Prophecies(2nd. ed.), vol. 3, p. 308.}PFF2 724.1