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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 Do not remember that when I was happy in a frequent Conversation with You, during my Four Years Abode in London, that ever we discoursed concerning the Subjects in the following Dissertation treated on. Nor do I know what Your Judgment, or particular Sentiments, as to these Contemplations, may be. Nevertheless, I know that God hath adorned You with singular Learning, and that You are well able to pass a Judgment on Controversies of this Nature: And I am willing that what I have written should come under Your Censure. Nor have I any other way than by this Dedication, to manifest that no Distance of Place can remove out of my Heart the grateful Sense which I have of the many Favours I received from You whilst with You.
I Do not remember that when I was happy in a frequent Conversation with You, during my Four Years Abode in London, that ever we discoursed concerning the Subjects in the following Dissertation treated on. Nor do I know what Your Iudgment, or particular Sentiments, as to these Contemplations, may be. Nevertheless, I know that God hath adorned You with singular Learning, and that You are well able to pass a Iudgment on Controversies of this Nature: And I am willing that what I have written should come under Your Censure. Nor have I any other way than by this Dedication, to manifest that no Distance of Place can remove out of my Heart the grateful Sense which I have of the many Favours I received from You whilst with You.
I earnestly pray that the Blessings of Heaven may descend upon Your Person, and upon Your Virtuous Consort, whom the Lord hath made to be a Pattern of Humility and real Piety, and upon the many hopeful Branches of Your Family, who are th• Children of many Prayers, and the Posterity of Ancestors eminent for Religion: Most of them cannot but have some Remembrance of their Excellent and Honourable Grandfather, than whom I have scarce known a more Heavenly Soul upon Earth.