N01147:23
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 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 Rev. 20. In which another singularly Learned man, (viz. Alstedius de mille Annis, p. 228, 229.) concurs with him, who nevertheless has endeavoured a Refutation of his Notion, that that Reign will be in Heaven only, but not on Earth. This new Writer Wonders that no body in the World but himself, should know that Popery began in the Year 758. And if it had been true, I should have wondered at it also. In the mean time, it is to be wondered at, that any one should think, that the Man of Sin was not Born into the world, until he was become a strong stout Man, able to supplant Kings, & overset Governments. I shall say nothing of this Authors Extolling several Corrupt Arminian Annotators, as the best Expositors; nor of his mis-interpreting clear Texts of Scripture, that prove Justification by the Imputed Righteousness of Christ only; which Doctrine Protestants generally have asserted & maintained against the Papists: nor of the Nestorianism, which I understand is in another of his Books, that I have not seen;
There is a late Writer, who has made some Attempts on the Revelation. He would perswade 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 farmore Learned and Judicious men than himself, yea, & Forreign Divines too, have not only approved but applauded & admired. In his own