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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
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As for that Opinion of Christ's Personal Presence and Residence in the midst of the New-Jerusalem, during the Thousand Years, I do not assert it. I believe He will appear when the thousand Years begin: Yet I know not, but in that World to come, He may be seen ascending and descending at his Pleasure, all the Angels of Heaven waiting on Him. This great thing, this glorious Sight shall Nathanael, and all such Israelites as he was, be blessed with, Joh. 1.50.51. The Saints on Earth may have a glorious Vision of Christ in Heaven at the Right Hand of God, when Heaven shall be opened, and they shall have the same Sight that Stephen had Acts 7.55.56. We may not reject a Truth, which as to the Substance of it is revealed, because we are in the Dark as to many Circumstances attending it. The Patriarchs and Prophets had the first coming of Christ discovered to them. They knew that the Eternal Son of God should be Incarnate, and that he should die for the Salvation of Men; Nevertheless, many Circumstances attending that coming ⟨p. 35⟩of the Lord, they did not discern with that Clearness as is in […] Gospel revealed. The Prophets themselves searched into the meaning of th•se […] they were ins•••ed to declare, 1 Pet. 1.10, 11. The like to this is […] be […] of our Knowledge respecting the Invisible World. We know that the […] of departed Saints are in Bliss; we know that they are praising and […] God; but unquestionably those Holy Souls have Employments which we know not of; nor shall we as long as we abide in Flesh, 2 […]. 12.4. The […] to be said with reference to the Day of Judgment, and the Resurrection-World. Mr. Baxter, in his Book concerning the Kingdom of Christ, (p. 71, 72.) […] these Words. Concerning the New-Earth, we must content our self: with what God has revealed, and not search into unrevealed things. It is […] that i• will be a Restitution of all things; that in it shall dwell Righteousness, that it will be a Paradise state; that Christ shall reign over it, that […] Glorified saints shall lose any of the•• part in Heaven by it: It will be a state of Communion; Angels and Men will […] familiar Converse, Christ shall be joyfully known amongst the as their […] King. Neither Christ nor the Saints will lay by their Humane Nature, or Body, but their Bodies will be so far refined as shall be suitable to the Condition of the New refined World. All this Mr.