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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.
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,
That it is evident that the Sentence of Absolution will be passed on the Righteous before the Sentence of Condemnation on the Wicked. When it is said, he shall set the Sheep on the Right hand, but the Goats on the Left, the meaning is, that the Sheep shall be acquitted, but […] Goats condemned. Both the 25th Chapter of Matthew and the 7th of Daniel •••ude to the Synedrium, or great Sessions of the Judges in Israel. That Supreme Court of Judicature in which Cases of Life and Death were tried (which Court was always held at Jerusalem, thence was it said, that it cannot be that a Prophet perish out of Jerusalem, Luk. 13.33.) the Jews call Beth din haggadol, the great House of Judgment. This Court was first erected by Moses, according to Divi•• Direction. It did consist of Seventy Elders besides the Nasi. i. e. the Prince or President of the Court. The most Aged or Venerable of the Judges was Vice-president, he was called Ab-beth-din, the Father of the House of Judgment. This helps to understand that Expression of the Ancient of Days in the 7th of Daniel. These Judges sate semi-circle wise: The Nasi, or President, in the midst of them, the Father of the Consistory, or Vice President, next to him on his Right Hand. This gives Light to the Expression of sitting on the right Hand of Power,