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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
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These, when they shall be brought out of their Graves shall find the Judge and his Saints with him sitting upon Thrones of Glory. They that would see more of the Synedrium, unto which the Scriptures mentioned have (as I said) a Reference, may consult Godwin, Selden, Cunaeus, and Hoffman in his Lexicon universal. Also my learned Friend (whom for Honour's Sake I mention) D. Leusden, Professor of the Hebrew Tongue in the University of Utrecht, has written De Synedriis Judaeorum in plilo•. Hebraea mixed. Dissertation 46.
These, when they shall be brought out of their Graves shall find the Judge and his Saints with him sitting upon Thrones of Glory. They that would see more of the Synedrium, unto which the Scriptures mentioned have (as I said) a Reference, may consult Godwin, Selden, Cunaeus, and Hoffman in his Lexicon universal. Also my learned Friend (whom for Honour's Sake I mention) D. Leusden, Professor of the Hebrew Tongue in the University of Utrecht, has written De Synedriis Iudaeorum in plilo•. Hebraea mixt. Dissertation 46.
2. It is by some objected that there is no mention of a Thousand Years any where in all the Scripture, except in one Place, when as, if so momentous • Truth as that contended for, were intended thereby, it would be oftener spoken of than once. But far be it from us to reject a Scripture Truth because it is but [Greek or Hebrew], once in express Terms mentioned. There are many weighty Truths of which this is to be affirmed. The Messiah his being to be born of a Virgin, and at Bethlehem, and that he was to come within so many Years, these Things were but once mentioned by the Prophets. That particular Resurrection which was at the Time of our Lord's Resurrection, is spoken of by only one of the Evangelists. Many Historical Passages in Luke's Gospel are no where else mentioned, but that is Ground sufficient for our Faith to build upon. But as for the Thousand Years, they are mentioned no less than Six Times (sometime with, and sometime without an Article in the Greek Original) in one Chapter. I cannot think that the Holy Spirit by the Apostle John would so inculcate, and insist upon it, if there were not a greater and a more glorious Mystery contained therein than the vulgar Interpretation does allow of. Moreover, it seems to me that another Apostle mentions the Thousand Years, as concurring with the Day of Judgment: For Peter calls the Day of Judgment, the Day of God, and the Day of the Lord. He also says, that one Day is with the Lord as a Thousand Years, and […] Thousand Years as one Day,