The Declaration of Rights in one hand, and the Book of Revelation in the other, Priestley awaited the imminent fall of the Papacy and the Ottoman Empire and the return of the Jews to Judea. Even these events, he thought, were merely preliminaries to the Second Coming.
For Priestley, the French Revolution, when it finally came, was merely a sign of the apocalypse he had long predicted....
His brand of radical theology was certainly a major inspiration for the Founding Fathers. Clark, 335.
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