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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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but I cannot but take notice of ⟨image ?⟩his having the vanity to tell the World, That he will venture to Prophesy, that when he is Dead, the Divine Providence will raise up some or other, who will think that he has been a person Illuminated and Qualified, to discover the mind of his Master further than ever any had done before him; and that it will be matter of wonder to Posterity, that so many important Truths should continue unknown to the Churches, sc. Until he brought them to Light. P. 37. There is such a Nauseous tang of Vain-glory, scattered up and down in his Writings, as I must confess has made me quite Sick of him. And his Scheme on the Apocalypse, is the most Fanciful and Injudicious of any that I have met with.
but I cannot but take notice of ⟨image ?⟩his having the vanity to tell the World, That he will veniare to Prophesy, that when he is Dead, the Divine Providence will raise up some or other, who will think that he has been a person Illuminated and Qualified, to discover the mind of his Master further than ever any had done before him; and that it will be matter of wonder to Posterity, that so many important Truths should continue unknown to the Churches, sc. Until he brought them to Light. P. 37. There is such a Nauseous tang of Vain-glory, scattered up and down in his Writings, as I must confess has made me quite Sick of him. And his Scheme on the Apocalyps, is the most Fanciful and Injudicious of any that I have met with.
He thinks, that the Tenth part of the City, spoken of, Rev. 11. 13. is fallen, and that it fell when Constantinople was taken, A. D. 1453. That the Seven Thousand Names of men, were the Eastern Nominal Christians: That the Dead Bodies of the Slain Witnesses, were the Calixtines in Bohemia, who complied with the Papists. He says, that the Witnesses are Risen long ago; that they Rose A. D. 1516. A World of such Fancies he has; the Recitation whereof is a sufficient Refutation of them. If the Resurrection of the Witnesses was past so long ago, how is it that there have been since that, such General Slaughters of the Witnesses? Alstaedius observes, that in the Space of Forty Years, from the Year 1540. the Papists Slew and Martyred, no less than Nine Hundred Thousand Protestants. Have not the Witnesses in these late Years been Slain in France, Piedmont, Hungary and in some Provinces in Germany? Not to speak of other Lands.