N01147:130
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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4. It is to be hoped that the Restoration of the Jews is near at hand. Does not the Prophet Daniel tell us, that when the Time, Times, and Half a Time is expired, the dispersion of the Holy people (so are the Jews called) shall be finished, Dan. 12. 7. And our Saviour has told us, that Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled, Luk. 21. 24. When the time, times, and half a time is accomplished, the times of the Gentiles will be fulfilled, then Jerusalem shall be no longer […] down. To this agrees that of the Apostle, Rom. 11. 25, 26. Blindness is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles shall come its, so all Israel shall be Saved. It is foretold by one of the Prophets, that when the Jews shall be called, the Great Trumpet shall be blown, ⟨p. 103⟩Isa. 27. 13 That Great Trumpet, I take to be the same with the Seventh Trumpet in the Revelation; John Expounds Isaiah, in Rev. 10. 6, 7. But concerning the Salvation of Israel, I have Written largely, in a Discourse which was Printed at London, Forty Years since; and have not seen cause to alter my Judgment on that Subject, and therefore shall not add more at present. And I am still of the Opinion, that the Jews Conversion will be brought to pass in an Extraordinary manner, as Pauls was, by an Appearance of Christ to them. The Reasons for this mentioned in my Dia triba de signo filij Hominis, Printed at Amsterdam, 1682. are of weight with me, notwithstanding I proposed it only as a Problem. Several things very Remarkable, have lately come to pass, which are a great Encouragement unto Faith and Prayer, that the Glorious things to be done in the Latter Days, make hast upon us; e. g.
4. It is to be hoped that the Restauration of the Jews is near at hand. Does not the Prophet Daniel tell us, that when the Time, Times, and Half a Time is expired, the dispersion of the Holy people (so are the Jews called) shall be finished,