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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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Mr. S. his Sermon is a Melancholy Subject, since it tends to the Deformation of these Churches. I was the rather willing to Conclude my Dissertation, with a Comfortable Appendix, relating to the Great Reformation of the Churches in Europe, now (I hope) at the Door. It will (I doubt not) shortly appear, whether the design of Providence in Planting Churches in New-England, was not (according to Mr. Brightmans Prophesy, and as other Eminent men have Conjectured) to show unto the World a Specimen, of what shall more Generally obtain in the Glorious Times Approaching.
Mr. S. his Sermon is a Melancholy Subject, since it tends to the Deformation of these Churches. I was the rather willing to Conclude my Dissertation, with a Comfortable Appendix, relating to the Great Reformation of the Churches in Europe, now (I hope) at the Door. It will (I doubt not) shortly appear, whether the design of Providence in Planting Churches in New-England, was not (according to Mr. Brightmans Prophesy, and as other Eminent men have Conjectured) to shew unto the World a Specimen, of what shall more Generally obtain in the Glorious Times Approaching.
There is a late Writer, who has made some Attempts on the Revelation. He would persuade the World, that Anti-christ shall Reign yet these Three Hundred Years. If he had said Six Hundred, he might have produced as good Reasons for it, as he has done when he tells us of 2018. He quarrels with Mr. Medes Apocalyptical Scheme: which far more Learned and Judicious men than himself, yea, & Foreign Divines too, have not only approved but applauded & admired. In his own ⟨image ?⟩Opinion, he has out-done all the Men in the World, who have been before him. Old Joseph Mede, (as he speaks) and Mr. Whiston, & the Bishop of Worcester too,(Quanta Nomina!) are but Dwarfs in the Eyes of this Giant. He would have us think, that the Notion of the Saints of the First Resurrection, their Reigning with Christ a Thousand Years, not on Earth but in Heaven, was his […]. Whenas the Learned A. B. Peganius, in his Explication of the Apostle Johns Visions, p. 242, 243, 259. asserted it long before him. And Piscator also in his Commentary on the Apocalypse, who brings strong Reasons for a Literal Interpretation of the Resurrection spoken of, in