A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

But there was no such order of men upheld in Israel for any constancy, before Samuel; the want of it is taken notice of in 2 Sam. iii 1. "And the word of the Lord was precious in those days▪ there was no open vision." But in Samuel there was begun a succession of prophets, that was maintained continually from that time, at least with very little interruption, till this spirit of prophecy ocased, about Malachi's time: and therefore Samuel is spoken in the New Testament as the beginning of the succession of prophets. Acts iii.24. And all the prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have foretold of these days." After Samuel was Nathan, and Gad and Iddo, and Heman, and Asaph, and others. And afterwards, in the latter and of Solomon's reign, we read of Ahijah; and in Jeroboam and Rehoboam's time we read of prophets; and so continually one prophet succeeded another, till the captivity: We read in the writings of those prophets that are inserted into the canon of the scriptures, of prophets as being a constant order of men uph•ld in the land in those days: and in the time of the captivity there were prophets still, as Ezekiel and Daniel; and after the captivity there were prophets, as Zechariah, Haggai, and Malachi.

But there was no such order of men upheld in Israel for any constancy, before Samuel; the want of it is taken notice of in 2 Sam. iii 1. "And the word of the Lord was precious in those days▪ there was no open vision." But in Samuel there was begun a succession of prophets, that was maintained continually from that time, at least with very little interruption, till this spirit of prophecy ocased, about Malachi's time: and therefore Samuel is spoken in the New Testament as the beginning of the succession of prophets. Acts iii.24. And all the prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have foretold of these days." After Samuel was Nathan, and Gad and Iddo, and Heman, and Asaph, and others. And afterwards, in the latter and of Solomon's reign, we read of Ahijah; and in Jeroboam and Rehoboam's time we read of prophets; and so continually one prophet succeeded another, till the captivity: We read in the writings of those prophets that are inserted into the canon of the sciptures, of prophets as being a constant order of men uphld in the land in those days: and in the time of the captivity there were prophets still, as Ezekiel and Daniel; and after the captivity there were prophets, as Zechariah, Higgai, and