{"product_id":"1839-adventist-early-adventist-urges-william-miller-against-setting-date-for-christs-return","title":"1839 ADVENTIST. Early Adventist Urges William Miller Against Setting Date for Christ's Return.","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003eHenry Jones’s 1839 foundational work, \u003ci data-index-in-node=\"25\" data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Scriptures Searched\u003c\/i\u003e,  is one of the earliest book-length defenses of premillennial adventist views published during the formative years of the Millerite movement. Written by a Congregationalist minister and social reformer who began corresponding with William Miller in 1832 after reading Miller's initial series in the \u003ci data-index-in-node=\"400\" data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003eVermont Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, Jones became one of Miller’s earliest ordained ministerial allies. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003eTheologically, the book embodies the foundational Hermeneutic of early Adventism. Subtitled as making the Bible \"its own independent interpreter,\" Jones’s expository discourses directly reflected Miller's method of scripture interpretation, which insisted that the Bible should explain itself through cross-referencing and literal reading of apocalyptic imagery. It systematically offered biblical arguments for a literal, personal, pre-millennial return of Christ, the physical resurrection of the righteous, the final judgment, and the renewal of the earth, actively opposing the prevailing post-millennial view of the era that claimed the church would usher in a thousand years of peace prior to Christ's return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003eCrucially, the book also highlights an important internal theological tension within early Millerite thought regarding date-setting. While Jones wholeheartedly embraced Miller’s belief in the imminence of the Second Coming and the necessity of warning the world based on prophetic signs, he explicitly maintained \"no man knowing when the time is,\" resisting Miller's specific timeline pointing to 1843 or 1844. This nuance makes \u003ci data-index-in-node=\"434\" data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003eThe Scriptures Searched\u003c\/i\u003e a vital landmark showing that early Adventist doctrine began as a broader movement around the literal, imminent Advent before it strictly consolidated around specific timeline dates. Following this publication, Jones went on to play a major leadership role in the movement, serving as a secretary for the historic First General Conference of Adventists in Boston in October 1840 and later editing early Adventist periodicals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot offered since 1975, and no examples in the trade at the time of cataloging. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJones, Henry. The Scriptures Searched; Or, Christ's Second Coming and Kingdom at Hand; Including \"The Resurrection\" — \"Day of Judgment\" — \"End of All Things\" — \"New Heavens\" and \"New Earth;\" Together with a Glorious and Everlasting Millennium: With Present Fulfilling Prophetic Signs, that Now, \"It is Near, Even at the Doors;\" No Man Knowing \"When the Time Is.\" In Expository Discourses, Making the Bible its Own Independent Interpreter. New-York. Gould, Newman, \u0026amp; Saxton. 1839. 244pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA good, solid example in original cloth. Fading to cloth as shown, some light foxing, stain lower right inner margin extending part way through the textblock. Else generally solid and clean. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51162213482532,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/07-24-2026SpecsFineBooks-2.jpg?v=1784932710","url":"https:\/\/specsfinebooks.com\/products\/1839-adventist-early-adventist-urges-william-miller-against-setting-date-for-christs-return","provider":"Specs Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}