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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.
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.
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-Ierusalem. 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.
Thus have I with as much Brevity and Perspicuity as I could, declared my Sentiments with my Reasons: Nor do I maintain any thing but what the primitive Doctors and Martyrs did Believe and Teach, as also very […] Eminent Divines (both Con-formists and Non-conformists) in this Last […] wherein the Truth relating to these Mysteri has bn more abundan ened into.