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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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3. That One (and a principal one) of the Ten Kingdoms whereby the Beast at Rome has been supported, shall undergo a marvellous Revolution, Rev. 11. 12, The same Hour there was a great Earthquake, and the Tenth part of the City fell. By the Tenth Part of the City. I understand one of the Ten Kingdoms, into which Babylon the Great City, i. e. Rome has been divided. Which of those Ten Kingdoms it is, a very few Years will Determine. Dr. Goodwin (†)Conjectured long since, ⟨p. 102⟩it would be the Kingdom of France; for that very many Witnesses and Martyrs have been there. Cocceius also thinks, that by the Tenth part of the City, France is intended. Several things may incline us to be of that Opinion. For France has been the greatest of all the Ten Kingdoms. And it was as Mr. Whiston (k)observes, the T[Greek or Hebrew] the Tenth and Last of the Kingdoms in order of its Rise, that it therefore Denominated the Beast, a Beast with Ten Horns, arising exactly the very same time with the Beast, and that it alone of all the Ten, has never been Conquered since its first Rise, and as it all along has hitherto continued, so probably it is not to Fall in the Prophetical phrase, till the End of that Grand Period, 1716
3. That One (and a principal one) of the Ten Kingdoms whereby the Beast at Rome has been supported, shall undergo a marvellous Revolution, Rev. 11. 12, The same Hour there was a great Earthquake, and the Tenth part of the City fell. By the Tenth Part of the City. I understand one of the Ten Kingdoms, into which Babylon the Great City, i. e. Rome has been divided. Which of those Ten Kingdoms it is, a very few Years will Determine. Dr. Goodwin (†)Conjectured long since, ⟨p. 102⟩it would be the Kingdom of France; for that very many Witnesses and Martyrs have been there. Cocceius also thinks, that by the Tenth part of the City, France is intended. Several things may incline us to be of that Opinion. For France has been the greatest of all the Ten Kingdoms. And it was as Mr. Whiston