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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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Baxter saith is certain: I fully concur with him▪ […] in what he mentions as certain of Gog and Magog, I cannot go along with him, nor in some Particulars which he speaks of as uncertain; but with his Fourth Particular I consent. His words are these, It is uncertain whether there shall be any stated, visible Presence of Christ here, or that only he shall appear as in Heaven, as the Sun does by it's Light; or only sometimes be seen as he was after his Resurrection. His concluding Words are; If by Faith in Christ God dwell in us by Love, and we in Him, and we have in us that Kingdom of Grace, we shall have our part in the future Kingdom, tho' we understand not many Difficulties about it. A […] Conclusion.
Baxter saith is certain: I fully concur with him▪ 〈…〉 in what he mentions as certain of Gog and Magog, I cannot go along with him, nor in some Particulars which he speaks of as uncertain; but with his Fourth Particular I consent. His words are these, It is uncertain whether there shall be any stated, visible Presence of Christ here, or that only he shall appear as in Heaven, as the Sun does by it's Light; or only sometimes be seen as he was after his Resurrection. His concluding Words are; If by Faith in Christ God dwell in us by Love, and we in Him, and we have in us that Kingdom of Grace, we shall have our part in the future Kingdom, tho' we understand not many Difficulties about it. A 〈…〉 Conclusion.
The Objection about the Insurrection of Gog and Magog is of all the most difficult to be solved: I pretermit the odd Notion of a late French Author, viz. Pier Poiret, in his Book which bears the Title of Le Aeconomi• Divine, T•m. •. Chap. 15. p. 469. who supposeth that by Gog and Magog, the Devil and […] Souls are intended, which he thinks will be all let loose out of Hell at the […] of the Thousand Years, to make a Furious, tho' a fruitless Attempt […] Glorified Saints of the New-Jerusalem. This Fancy of his is new and singular, and I suppose will not be received by many. It is certain that the Universal Resurrection will be after the Magogical War; nor is it credible that that War will be undertaken by none but unbodied Spirits.