There is yet in the Gospel according to some learned men, another acception of [Greek or Hebrew], namely for the whole course of the time of the Gospel-dispensation,1 after the abrogation of the Mosaical-dispensation, at the ascension of Christ. This is called the last Age of the world, after which there is no other to be looked for by us here ⟨p. 38⟩as after old age man is to expect no other age in this life but death, which putteth an end unto his time. And the Scripture (as they conceive) in this notion of age, relates to a very notable distribution (of famous account amongst the jews) of the time before and after the Messiah, into two ages. The first is called the Age before the Messiah, the then present age, the age of the jewish state. The second the Age after the Messiah, the future age, the age of Christianity Not inconformably whereunto, Tobit speaking of the second Temple rebuilded under EzRA, saith that it shall be until the end of that Age.2 Chapt. 14.5. And the Septuagint calleth Christ the Father of the age to come. Isaiah. 9 6. And conformably hereunto, what we read the ends of the world, they read the Consummation of ages. Heb: 9.26. 1 Cor: 10.11. (The Greek bearing either version) conceiving that the Consummation of ages, are therefore said to be come upon them that live under the Gospel, because they who live under the Gospel have out-lived the legal dispensation, the Cessation whereof was the consummation of the age before the Messiah, and live under that dispensation, the cessation whereof shall be the Consummation of the age after the Messiah, i. e. the Gospel dispensation, which shall be the shutting up of all ages, & consequently end with the end of the world. The sum of this interpretations cometh to this, I will be with you to the end of the age, meaning thereby the age of the Messiah, beginning at the Ascension of Christ, and continuing unto the end of the world. It is the same in effect with the translation, though differing in expression.
There is yet in the Gospel according to some learned men, another acception of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, namely for the whole course of the time of the Gospel-dispensation,1 after the abrogation of the Mosaical-dispensation, at the ascention of Christ. This is called the last Age of the world, after which there is no other to be looked for by us here ⟨p. 38⟩as after old age man is to expect no other age in this life but death, which putteth an end unto his time. And the Scripture (as they conceive) in this notion of age, relates to a very notable distribution (of famous account amongst the jewes) of the time before and after the Messiah, into two ages. The first is called the Age before the Messiah, the then present age, the age of the jewish state. The secōd the Age after the Messiah, the future age, the age of Christianitie Not inconformably whereunto, Tobit speaking of the second Temple rebuilded under EzRA, saith that it shall be untill the end of that Age.2 Chapt. 14.5. And the Septuagint calleth Christ the Father of the age to come. Esay. 9 6. And conformably hereunto, what wee read the ends of the world, they read the Consummation of ages. Heb: 9.26. 1 Cor: 10.11. (The Greek bearing either version) conceiving that the Consummation of ages, are therefore said to be come upon them that live under the Gospel, because they who live under the Gospel have out-lived the legal dispensation, the Cessation whereof was the consummation of the age before the Messiah, and live under that dispensation, the cessation whereof shall be the Consummation of the age after the Messiah, i. e. the Gospel dispensation, which shall be the shutting up of all ages, & consequently end with the end of the world. The sum of this interpretations commeth to this, I will be with you to the end of the age, meaning thereby the age of the Messiah, beginning at the Ascension of Christ, and continuing unto the end of the world. It is the same in effect with the translation, though differing in expression.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
- 2In natis ex Eus•bio Evang Demon stra.t l. 7.In natis ex Eus•bio Evang Demō stra.t l. 7.
