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Evangelicalism and Eschatology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

D. N. Hempton
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Abstract

The great majority of his published sermons are occupied with argument or philippic against Romanists and unbelievers, with ‘vindications’ of the Bible, with the political interpretation of prophecy, or the criticism of public events.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 1980 , pp. 179 - 194
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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