A dissertation concerning the future conversion of the Jewish Nation. Answering the objections of…

which they are delighted with, and they are taken with John's Description of the New Jerusalem, and the Allusions which are throughout the whole Book to Things which they are acquainted with is pleasing to them: And in particular, a Thousand Years glorious Reign with the Messiah, and that after the Resurrection of the Righteous, and before the Resurrection of the Wicked, is a Mystery which the Hebrew Doctors have not been altogether unacquainted with; having (no doubt) received that Notion, as well as that of the Day of Judgment, by Tradition from their Fathers, who had them from the Prophets. For when these Things shall come to pass, in the Days of the Seventh Apocalyptical Trumpet, they are the Mystery of God which he has declared to his Servants the Prophets. It may give Light into the Subject before us to cite some Testimonies out of Jewish Authors; and let Men call what we plead for a Jewish Opinion, if they please. Maimonides, who is accounted one of the wisest and soberest Writers amongst the Jews since their last fatal Dispersion in Tract. Saned. cap. 10. saith that Their wise Men are of the Belief that the Kingdom of the Messiah shall continue for a thousand Years. In Talmud Babylon. Cap. Helek. Aruck is brought in as speaking their Sense of these Matters, ⟨p. 30⟩viz. That the Righteous ones whom God shall raise from the dead, shall no more […] to the Dust, but those Thousand Years, in which the Holy Blessed God shall renew the World, he will give them Wings of an Eagle. This he speaks as a Thing known and undeniable. And R. E•••zer says, The Days of the Messiah are a Thousand Years. They say, that when the Righteous are restored to Life, and when Gog is destroyed (by that Gog, the Turk who is the Eastern Antichrist, must be meant) then will be the [Greek or Hebrew] the glorious World to come. See▪ Dr. Lightfoot. Vol. 1. p. 354. In few Words, there are of their Rabbis who say, the glorious Reign of Messiah and of the House of David will begin when the World is Six Thousand Years old, which Reign some of them reckon as belonging to this World, but others call it the World to come. That this Reign will continue until the Seventh Thousand Year from the Creation, when will be the universal Resurrection and last Judgment. They that would see more Rabbinical Notions may find them in Grellot's Prodromus in Apoc cap. 20.

which they are delighted with, and they are taken with Iohn's Description of the New Ierusalem, and the Allusions which are throughout the whole Book to Things which they are acquainted with is pleasing to them: And in particular, a Thousand Years glorious Reign with the Messiah, and that after the Resurrection of the Righteous, and before the Resurrection of the Wicked, is a Mystery which the Hebrew Doctors have not been altogether unacquainted with; having (no doubt) received that Notion, as well as that of the Day of Judgment, by Tradition from their Fathers, who had them from the Prophets. For when these Things shall come to pass, in the Days of the Seventh Apocalyptical Trumpet, they are the Mystery of God which he has declared to his Servants the Prophets. It may give Light into the Subject before us to cite some Testimonies out of Iewish Authors; and let Men call what we plead for a Iewish Opinion, if they please. Maimonides, who is accounted one of the wisest and soberest Writers amongst the Iews since their last fatal Dispersion in Tract. Saned. cap. 10. saith that Their wise Men are of the Belief that the Kingdom of the Messiah shall continue for a thousand Years. In Talmud Babylon. Cap. Helek. Aruck is brought in as speaking their Sense of these Matters,