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

So that it should seem, that the Babylonian, Persian and Grecian Kingdoms represented by the Three First Beasts, were not destroyed by Fire, as the Roman Territories represented by the Fourth Beast, are described to be; but that Greece and Asia shall continue inhabited after the Burning of the Western Part of the Roman Empire. He also supposeth that when that Part of the Earth shall continue in Flames, this partial Conflagration will be a Means of keeping Christians in a more strict Obedience, yea and of converting the Heathen Nations in all Parts of the World. Thus doth that learned and worthy Person conjecture. His Argument would be demonstrative, if it were certain that the Prolongati•• of Life for a Season and Time, which is mentioned in Daniel concerning the rest of the Beasts, were to be understood of a Life granted to them after the Fourth Beast (or Kingdom on Earth) is slain and given to the Burning. Mr. Mede chooses to read the Word in the singular Number, the Remainder of the Beast, and then the Sense is, that not the Body only, or People of the Beast's Dominions were destroyed, but the Ten Horns and the wicked Horn (which are the Remainder of the Beast) had their Dominion taken away; yet the Prolongation of Life was given to them for a Season and Time, viz. until the Time when the Son of Man shall come in the Clouds of Heaven. But if we construe the Words plurally, and by the rest of the Beasts understand the Three First Monarchies, the Meaning may be, that they lost their Dominion after they had successively for a Time ruled the World: But then the Fourth Beast differed from them in this, that he was destroyed by Fire from Heaven, which they were not: So that this Text in Daniel does not necessitate us to believe that the Conflagration will be so particular, or that only the Western Part of the Roman Empire shall fall under it.

So that it should seem, that the Babylonian, Persian and Grecian Kingdoms represented by the Three First Beasts, were not destroyed by Fire, as the Roman Territories represented by the Fourth Beast, are described to be; but that Greece and Asia shall continue inhabited after the Burning of the Western Part of the Roman Empire. He also supposeth that when that Part of the Earth shall continue in Flames, this partial Conflagration will be a Means of keeping Christians in a more strict Obedience, yea and of converting the Heathen Nations in all Parts of the World. Thus doth that learned and worthy Person conjecture. His Argument would be demonstrative, if it were certain that the Prolongati of Life for a Season and Time, which is mentioned in Daniel concerning the rest of the Beasts, were to be understood of a Life granted to them after the Fourth Beast (or Kingdom on Earth) is slain and given to the Burning. Mr. Mede chuses to read the Word in the singular Number, the Remainder of the Beast, and then the Sense is, that not the Body only, or People of the Beast's Dominions were destroyed, but the Ten Horns and the wicked Horn (which are the Remainder of the Beast) had their Dominion taken away; yet the Prolongation of Life was given to them for a Season and Time, viz. until the Time when the Son of Man shall come in the Clouds of Heaven. But if we construe the Words plurally, and by the rest of the Beasts understand the Three First Monarchies, the Meaning may be, that they lost their Dominion after they had successively for a Time ruled the World: But then the Fourth Beast differed from them in this, that he was destroyed by Fire from Heaven, which they were not: So that this Text in Daniel does not necessitate us to believe that the Conflagration will be so particular, or that only the Western Part of the Roman Empire shall fall under it.