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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 shall only add here, that it is no Heresy to believe that some Circumstances relating to the Day of Judgment were not revealed so fully before as since the Ascension of our Lord, who has taken the Book out of the Right Hand of him that sits on the Throne, and has made these Things known to John, the last of the Apostles, so far as is needful, for the Edification and Consolation of his Church.
I shall only add here, that it is no Heresie to believe that some Circumstances relating to the Day of Judgment were not revealed so fully before as since the Ascension of our Lord, who has taken the Book out of the Right Hand of him that sits on the Throne, and has made these Things known to Iohn, the last of the Apostles, so far as is needful, for the Edification and Consolation of his Church.
3. Another Objection is that at the Day of Judgment the Conflagration will destroy all the wicked on the Earth, and then how shall there be Enemies, viz. Gog and Magog to make an Attempt on the Camp of the Saints after the Thousand Years are expired? To this some have answered, that we may suppose that the Living Saints who shall be all changed at the Lord's Coming, will not be put into a State in respect of Immortality, equal with the Angels, as the Saints of the First Resurrection shall be; but the Change they shall undergo will make them like Adam in Paradise; that they shall eat and drink and the like, as Adam should if he had not sinned; that these shall be instructed and ruled by the Saints of the New Jerusalem, who shall then be Priests and Kings. Thus Irenaeus Lib. 5. Cap. 35. and Lactantius Lib. 7. C. 24. The Hebrew Doctors are of Opinion, that in the Days of the Messiah Men shall live as long as the Patriarchs did before the Flood. They suppose the Meaning of that Text Isa. 65.20. The Child shall die an Hundred Years old, to be, that one who is but an Hundred Years old will be counted a Child, because of the great Longevity of Men in those Days. But the Scripture seems to intimate that the Saints found alive at the Lord's Coming shall in a Moment be made incorruptible, like those raised from the dead,