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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.
Mr. William Alleine in his Discourse of the New-Heavens and New-Earth, p. 123. reasons well, that the Power of Sin is so great as that it will make Men hazard their Lives to fulfil their Lusts. The Officers who apprehended the Lord Jesus Christ, notwithstanding He did at that very Time discover his Divine Power before their Eyes, were so hardened as to go on with their Design, John 18.6. Luke 22.51. What Miracles did Pharaoh and the Egyptians see? Nevertheless they would venture to follow the Children of Israel into the Red Sea, although' they knew that the drying up the Sea was a Miraculous Thing, done by the Lord for the Salvation of his People. No doubt but the Amalekites did hear of this, and that Pharaoh and all his Host were drowned in that Sea, yet they would venture to come and fight against the Camp of the Saints, tho' they knew God was among them. Balaam knew that God was with them, and that there was great rejoicing amongst the Children of Israel, because they had Him as King in the midst of them, Numb. 23.21. He knew that Israel should Eat up the Nations, his Enemies. For all this he did them all the Mischief in his Power, and gave Devilish Advice to Balak tending to the ruin of That People. Is it then impossible that Magog should, by the Instigation of Satan, attempt a War against the Saints of God, tho' he should hear that Christ is amongst them and Reigning over them, and that the Name of that Glorious Church is, The Lord is there? The Children of Israel whilst in the Wilderness, Lived by Continual Miracles; the Pillar of Cloud by Day, and of Fire by Night, was a standing Miraculous Demonstration of the Presence of God. The Manna was Angel's Food; They saw by Ocular Demonstration, in respect of the Effects thereof, that Immortal Invisible Agents were amongst them every Day. The Hebrew Doctors say (as Buxtorf in his Dissertation of the Manna has shown) that the greatest Miracle that ever was wrought for their Father was that of the Manna wherewith they were sustained. And how often did the Lord visibly appear to them? Deut. 31.15. Yet how did the Hypocrites in that Church rise up in Rebellion against God, notwithstanding these Miracles?
Mr. William Alleine in his Discourse of the New-Heavens and New-Earth, p. 123. reasons well, that the Power of Sin is so great as that it will make Men hazard their Lives to fulfill their Lusts. The Officers who apprehended the Lord Jesus Christ, notwithstanding He did at that very Time discover his Divine Power before their Eyes, were so hardned as to go on with their Design,