1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

LECTURE XIII.
dnd I will give power unto my two witae9es, md b y rbdl
esy a thousand two hundred and theseme days, &
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TEE two witneseee in our text have uuaed an moch
mpeculation among the writers on the New T- u
anyother paesage in the word of God. &me have wp
posed that it was a succession of orthodox divines, rbom
God had raised up to witness to the trnth, dnri the
b e specified, which all ia twelve bondad
sixty years. And those writers who have taken thin dde
of the question, have endeavored to find some fimrite
divinee, among their sect, answering to the description
given of the two witneesea. Upon this comtmction every
mt might claim the honor of giving tothe world tbe two
witneesea And were thk explanation tme, inatead of
two witnesses, we should have more than eight bondred;
Lr every eect must have a set, and I dare not praf
erence to any. Thia would destroy the idea tmtlud8ed
at once
Other writera have fixed on the church as the two,
clergy and laity; but hew are many difficulties to encounter,
the Bame as above. Every eect must have tbeir
own church and cler or admit at once that thq are
not the true churcl~ %:t let us now come to the word
of God. And if the word of God does not explain the
u two witaessee," I shall despair of ever coming to the
truth on thb subject, for I am commanded by Chrid himrslf
to call no man master. I ahall, then,