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

that the Devil will suggest to them, Your World is a miserable World compared with that on the other Side of the Earth: You die and never rise again, but they on t'other Hemisphere live again after they die, and •re an happy People: Do you invade their Land, and you shall be like them, you shall be like the Gods, like the Immortal Ones that are there. He says the Americans may well be expressed by the Name of Magog, if Fuller's Conjecture be true, scil. That they are originally Scythians. The East-Indians (especially the Scythians in China) and the West-Indians do exactly resemble each other, as if they were of the same Original. And if the Scythians are spread abroad into both Indies, Noah's Prophecy concerning the Enlargement of Japheth's Tents is wondrously fulfilled. It is not easy to demonstrate who were the Aborigines in the American World, which made Peter Cotton the Jesuit (as Thuanus from his own Hand Writing reports of him) to go to Conjuring that so he might find it out. Grotius his Conceit that the Americans were originally Norwegians, is sufficiently confuted by Hornius in his Elaborate Discourse De origine Gentium Americanarum. Lerius, Comtaeus and Bochart have given probable Arguments to prove that some of the first Americans were Phoenicians of the Posterity of Ham. This is also confirmed by Hornbeck, de Conversions Indorum, and by Hornius, who makes it no less probable that others of them are Scythians, who are indisputably the Posterity of Magog. Nor is it necessary that the Apo••liptical Gog and Magog should be the Natural Progeny of them mentioned in the Scripture: It is enough if they be like them in respect of Enmity and ⟨p. 33⟩Hostility to the Church of God: However, Mr. Mede's Conjecture is ingenious, and may probably prove true. Dr. Twiss was much taken with Mr. •ede's Notions, he says in one of his Letters to him, I profess you have strange Conceits, I mean for the Worthiness of them, they possess me with Admiration. And in another, Your Letters, your Conjectures, your Meditations are the greatest Jewels my Study contains. He says that when he communicated some of them to Mr. White (once a famous Minister in Dorchester) and to Mr. Thatcher of Salisbury, they were ravished with them.

that the Devil will suggest to them, Your World is a miserable World compared with that on the other Side of the Erth: You die and never rise again, but they on t'other Hemisphere live again after they die, and re an happy People: Do you invade their Land, and you shall be like them, you shall be like the Gods, like the Immortal Ones that are there. He says the Americans may well be expressed by the Name of Magog, if Fuller's Conjecture be true, scil. That they are originally Scythians. The East-Indians (especially the Scythians in China) and the West-Indians do exactly resemble each other, as if they were of the same Original. And if the Scythians are spread abroad into both Indies, Noah's Prophecy concerning the Enlargement of Japhet's Tents is wondrously fulfilled. It is not easie to demonstrate who were the Aborigines in the American World, which made Peter Cotton the Iesuit (as Thuanus from his own Hand Writing reports of him) to go to Conjuring that so he might find it out. Grotius his Conceit that the Americans were originally Norwegians, is sufficiently confuted by Hornius in his Elaborate Discourse De origine Gentium Americanarum. Lerius, Comtaeus and Bochart have given probable Arguments to prove that some of the first Americans were Phaenicians of the Posterity of Cham. This is also confirmed by Hornbeck, de Conversions Indorum, and by Hornius, who makes it no less probable that others of them are Scythians, who are indisputably the Posterity of Magog. Nor is it necessary that the Apoliptical Gog and Magog should be the Natural Progeny of them mentioned in the Scripture: It is enough if they be like them in respect of Enmity and