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Excerpt from A Scripture Gazetteer, or Geographical and Historical Dictionary of Places and People, Mentioned in the Bible: With Maps; Tables of Time, Weights, Measures, and Money; And a Copious Chronological Table Local prophecies cannot be detached from the places to which they relate they form, indeed, the most important and instructive feature in the history of such places. Nor can predictions of a local charac ter yet unfulfilled, be considered as less important, or less belonging to the subjects of the present work. We would not be wise above what is written, nor presumptuously strive to penetrate the counsels of the Most High but as all Scripture is given for our instruction, while we enter on the study of its obscurer parts with suitable awe and humility, we may innocently, 'if not laudably, seek in what is revealed, and, in that which time is gradually unfolding, the manner and the times of what remains to be accomplished. These observations refer in a particular manner to the predictions relating to the Roman empire, and its offspring the Popedom. Nothing is farther from the intentions of the author, than to wound the feelings, or to insult the faith, of any body of Christians but persons and creeds are different things; and while the former, of whatever faith, may demand our unfeigned esteem, the latter must be judged, without fear of men, by the standard of truth delivered in the Bible. Concession, unwarranted by Scripture, is not charity - it may pass for such, or for the liberality, so called, of the day: but it must, in every such instance, have its foundation in either weakness, or ignorance, or hypocrisy. If we be wrong, we are willing to submit our errors to the same test to which we bring the professions of all and if differences still sub sist, as they must, and as it was doubtless designed that they should, charity consists in the exercise of mutual forbearance, and in pre serving, ih spite of Opposing creeds, the relations of civilized so