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all the evidences of the truth of revealed religion, there is perhaps not one that holds so important a rank—not even miracles being excepted—as prophecy. That this is so, reason alone must convince us. Who but God can possibly know what is still future? A man well acquainted with history, versed in the experience of the past, or who has studied the hidden depths of human nature, may assuredly form conjectures, more or less probable, of what is likely to happen in the times immediately bordering on his own; for, independently of what is called the Philosophy of History, which may assist him in some slight degree to unravel the mysteries of the future, there is no event of great magnitude which