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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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There was the space of no less than an Hundred Years, between the appearance of the First and of the Tenth Horn. Anti-christs Reign could not begin with the First Horn; for then it would have been out, above an Hundred Years ago: If it begun with the Last of the Ten Horns, than he has still more than Ten Years to Reign. But it may be, we must not know, till the Event shall be the Interpreter. The Babylonian Captivity, was to last but Seventy Years; yet the Jews were at a loss, as to the Beginning, and consequently as to the Expiration of those Years. For there were three Steps or Degrees of that Captivity the First, in the Days of Jebeiaki••, when Daniel went Captive: the Second, under Jeronias, when Ezekiel went Captive: the Last under Zedekiah, when the Temple and City was Burn't. It is to this day Disputed amongst Learned men, at which of these Three Captivities, did the Seventy Years Commence. Very Judicious Writers, conceive, that it was not at the First, nor at the Last of them. A little time will now make a more clear Discovery, when the Churches Captivity under the Spiritual Babylon began, and consequently when it will end. When the Disciples were very desirous to know, whether at that Time, the Kingdom should be Restored to Israel, the Lord, willed them to understand, that it was not for them to know the Article of Time, which the Father had put in His own Power, Act. 1. 7.
There was the space of no less than an Hundred Years, between the appearance of the First and of the Tenth Horn. Anti-christs Reign could not begin with the First Horn; for then it would have been out, above an Hundred Years ago: If it begun with the Last of the Ten Horns, than he has still more than Ten Years to Reign. But it may be, we must not know, till the Event shall be the Interpreter. The Babylonian Captivity, was to last but Seventy Years; yet the Jews were at a loss, as to the Beginning, and consequently as to the Expiration of those Years. For there were three Steps or Degrees of that Captivity the First, in the Dayes of Jebeiaki••, when Daniel went Captive: the Second, under Jeronias, when Ezekiel went Captive: the Last under Zedekiah, when the Temple and City was Burn't. It is to this day Disputed amongst Learned men, at which of these Three Captivities, did the Seventy Years Commence. Very Judicious Writers, conceive, that it was not at the First, nor at the Last of them. A little time will now make a more clear Discovery, when the Churches Captivity under the Spiritual Babylon began, and consequently when it will end. When the Disciples were very desirous to know, whether at that Time, the Kingdom should be Restored to Israel, the Lord, willed them to understand, that it was not for them to know the Article of Time, which the Father had put in His own Power,