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A dissertation, wherein the strange doctrine lately published in a sermon, the tendency of…
A dissertation, wherein the strange doctrine lately published in a sermon, the tendency of which, is, to encourage unsanctified persons (while such) to approach the holy table of the Lord, is examined and confuted. With an appendix, showing what Scripture ground there is to hope, that within a very few years there will be a glorious reformation of the church throughout the world. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]A dissertation, wherein the strange doctrine lately published in a sermon, the tendency of which, is, to encourage unsanctified persons (while such) to approach the holy table of the Lord, is examined and confuted. With an appendix, shewing what Scripture ground there is to hope, that within a very few years there will be a glorious reformation of the church throughout the world. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benj. Eliot, 1708
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The but now mentioned Author, ⟨p. 98⟩has another acute Observation (g)viz. That the famous Number of Two Thousand and Three Hundred Days, spoken of by the Prophet Daniel, (ch. 8. v. 14.) will Expire in the Year, 1716. This Vision (he says) which Determines the Period of the Churches Pollution, to 2300. Days: from the time that it was seen, does most Exactly and Surprisingly agree with the Computation above, h. e. to A. D. 1716. For 2300 Chaldean Years, of 360 Days, are Equal to 2266 Julian Years, and 344 Days, or in a round Number to 2267 Julian Years, & the Date of the Vision is in the Third Year of Belshazzar King of Babylon. If we add to that Year, 2267 Julian Years, it brings us to A. D. 1716. One Observation more. The Pope of Rome, who is by the Apostle called, the Man of Sin, and in the Revelation, the False Prophet, and the Second Beast, who has Two Horns; and in Daniel, the Little Horn, who was to be Diverse from the Ten Horns, & was to obtain his Dominion some time after them: And should Domineer for a Time, and Times, and the dividing or part of Time, Dan. 7. 24, 25 By the Division of time, (as our (h)Author observes) a Prophetical Month, (and not half a Year as has commonly been supposed) is intended. For the most Eminent and Remarkable Division or Part of a Year is a Month, as the most Eminent part of a Month is a Week; and of a Week a Day; and of a Day an Hour. So then a Time, and Times, & a Division of Time. makes a Thousand, an Hundred, and Ten Years. Now that the Pope of ⟨p. 99⟩Rome has Domineered ever since the Year 606 cannot be doubted. For then he was Declared to be, the Universal Bishop and Head of the whole Church; which ambitious Title Proclaimed him to be Anti-christ: As also some of his Predecessors Bishops of Rome had confessed, that no one but an Anti-christ would usurp that Title. Add to Six Hundred and Six, Eleven Hundred and Ten Years, allowed for the Dominion of that Horn, and it brings us to A. D. 1716 for the Expiration of his Reign. Let me add further, That my worthy Friend, Mr. Samuel Petto (who is (if Living, as I hope he still is) the Reverend and Aged Pastor of a Church on Sudbury in Suffolk,) has a peculiar Notion, which nevertheless falls in with 1716. He