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A dissertation concerning the future conversion of the Jewish Nation. Answering the objections of…
A dissertation concerning the future conversion of the Jewish Nation. Answering the objections of the Reverend and learned Mr. Baxter, Dr. Lightfoot, and others. : With an enquiry into the first resurrection. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard-College, at Cambridge, in New-England. ; [Three lines from Jeremiah]A dissertation concerning the future conversion of the Jewish Nation. Answering the objections of the Reverend and learned Mr. Baxter, Dr. Lightfoot, and others. : With an enquiry into the first resurrection. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard-Colledge, at Cambridge, in New-England. ; [Three lines from Jeremiah]
London: printed by R. Tookey for Nath. Hillier, 1709
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE Design of the former part of this Dissertation is to handle the Controversy under Debate ([Greek or Hebrew]) only in a defensive Way, and I have therefore but touched, and not enlarged on the Arguments that prove a future Conversion of the Israelitish Nation. In this last part, which concerns the first Resurrection, to begin with the Millennium, I once purposed to consider the Question ([Greek or Hebrew]) and only by positive Reasons to confirm what I believe is Truth. But I perceive it will be needful to endeavour the Removal of some Objections which detain many sober Minds from the embracing of such a Paradox as that which we have been labouring to evince.
THE Design of the former part of this Dissertation is to handle the Controversie under Debate (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) only in a defensive Way, and I have therefore but touched, and not enlarged on the Arguments that prove a future Conversion of the Israelitish Nation. In this last part, which concerns the first Resurrection, to begin with the Millennium, I once purposed to consider the Question (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) and only by positive Reasons to confirm what I believe is Truth. But I perceive it will be needful to endeavour the Removal of some Objections which detain many sober Minds from the embracing of such a Paradox as that which we have been labouring to evince.
I. It has been objected that Matth. 25. speaks of the Righteous and the Wicked being Judged together; the one being set on the Right hand and the other on the Left hand of Christ the Judge. To which I answer,
I. It has been objected that Matth. 25. speaks of the Righteous and the Wicked being Iudged together; the one being set on the Right hand and the other on the Left hand of Christ the Iudge. To which I answer,