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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.
In another of his Letters he has these Words, I protest unto you, if I should lie in Prison all the Days of my Life, next to the Consolations of God's Spirit, your Writings would most refresh me. That judicious Doctor does particularly applaud Mr. Mede's Conjecture about Gog and Magog. It is more like Truth than that of Dr. Homes, who supposeth a new Covenant of Works; and more rational than the extravagant Fancy of a late learned Writer, who concluding […] the Conflagration at the Beginning of the Thousand Years will be general, (destroying the whole Earth and all living Creatures therein) thinks that the New Earth will of it self produce, not only other Animals, but Men. There are many who have asserted an Equivocal Generation of Serpents and Vermin, (tho' that be denied by the best Philosophers) but an equivocal Generation not only of perfect Animals, but of Men with rational Souls is a Notion never heard of in the World before. And yet it may be not less Heretical than that of a Pythagorean Metempsychosis, or Revolution of Souls, asserted by the same Author. And not altogether so irreligious as his profane Attempt discovered in another Book; where he endeavours to make the World to believe that the History of Adam's Fall described by Moses is a mere Allegory, or Fable; for which his daring Impiety, a late judicious and worthy Writer, Dr. John Edwards has with just Indignation rebuked him. But I pass from this.
In another of his Letters he has these Words, I protest unto you, if I should lie in Prison all the Days of my Life, next to the Consolations of God's Spirit, your Writings would most refresh me. That judicious Doctor does particularly applaud Mr. Mede's Conjecture about Gog and Magog. It is more like Truth than that of Dr. Homes, who supposeth a new Covenant of Works; and more rational than the extravagant Fancy of a late learned Writer, who concluding 〈…〉 the Conflagration at the Beginning of the Thousand Years will be general, (destroying the whole Earth and all living Creatures therein) thinks that the New Earth will of it self produce, not only other Animals, but Men. There are many who have asserted an Equivocal Generation of Serpents and Vermin, (tho' that be denied by the best Philosophers) but an equivocal Generation not only of perfect Animals, but of Men with rational Souls is a Notion never heard of in the World before. And yet it may be not less Heretical than that of a Pythagorean Metempsychosis, or Revolution of Souls, asserted by the same Author. And not altogether so irreligious as his profane Attempt discovered in another Book; where he endeavours to make the World to believe that the History of Adam's Fall described by Moses is a meer Allegory, or Fable; for which his daring Impiety, a late judicious and worthy Writer, Dr. Iohn Edwards has with just Indignation rebuked him. But I pass from this.