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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.
who are saved from that Burning which shall be when the Beast is slain, and his Body given to the burning Flame. A great Interpreter conceives that the Words have Respect to the 66th of Isaiah, ⟨p. 31⟩where the Prophet speaks of the Time when the Lord will plead with all […] Fire, and the slain of the Lord shall be many: Yet then will be the Day in which all Flesh shall come to worship before the Lord, and they shall go forth, i. e. go forth out of their Graves, and look upon the Carcasses of them whose Wor• […] neither shall their Fire be quenched, Ver. 23, 24. This is the Case of those that are cast alive into the Lake of Fire. Nevertheless it is said, that at this Time some shall escape, Ver. 19. I will send those that escape of them: In the Septuagint it is [Greek or Hebrew], i. e. the saved ones of them; or it may be that Text in the Revelation alludes to Isaiah 45.20. They that are escaped (or as the Seventy have it) that are s••ed of the Nations; meaning those that should survive the destroying Judgments which should come on Idolaters. The Prophet there speaks of a universal Conversion of the Nations, which nevertheless the Apostle Paul shows will be fulfilled after that the Day of Judgment shall begin, Rom. 14.11. No Man supposes that there will be any Conversion at the ultimate Judgment. He that is unjust then shall be unjust still: But after the Conflagration (which begins with the Judgment on Antichrist) there will be a most glorious Conversion of all the Nations on the Earth, which shall escape that Deluge of Fire. And this well agrees with Daniel's Intimation, that after some shall awake out of the Dust of the Earth unto everlasting Life […] shall be turned to Righteousness, Dan. 12.2, 3. When God's appointed Time is come for the Burning of the World, the Fire will doubtless begin in one Part of the Earth first, as it was when the World was drowned; and the Scripture does clearly intimate that Italy will be the Place, for there the Beast has his Seat. Dr. Cressener (a late judicious Writer) inclines to think that after the burning of the Body of the Beast, there will remain a considerable Part of the Earth entire and inhabited; that the Christian Church shall not only continue, but increase, after the particular Conflagration of the Roman Territories; because it is said, the rest of the Beasts had their Lives prolonged for a season, Dan 7.12.