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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 some Places of Scripture, by the Gentiles, the Romans, or the Roman Monarchy is meant, Acts 4.27. and 21.11. Then by the Fullness of the Gentiles may be meant the full Time of the Continuance of that Monarchy, which will remain until the Sixth Vi•l be poured out, and then is the Jews Conversion to be expected, Rev. 16.12. Some have thought that the Parchments which Paul desired Timothy to bring to him, were some Notes of our Lord's Sermons which […] had, and Paul from him. Be that Conjecture as it is, it cannot be denied but that some of Paul's Expressions are like unto what is in Luke's Gospel, and why may not this under our Consideration, allude unto those Words of Christ, mentioned Luke 21.24. Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the Times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. i. e. until the Times be fulfilled when the Fourth Monarchy shall come to its total Ruin. See a like Phrase, Jer. 27.7. When the Four Monarchies of the Gentiles are finished, especially when the last Period of the Fourth Kingdom prophesied of, viz. When the Time, Times and half a Time is expired, then ends the Time of the Gentiles and the Jews Misery. See Mr. Jos. M•d• 's Works, Fol. 263, 873, 910, 920. This Time is not accomplished, but that it is very near its Period has been by many late Writings evinced, and in particular by my Learned and very dear Friend, Mr. Samuel Le•, in his Book D• ••cidio Antichristi. He once showed me in Manuscript a Second Part of his elaborate Meditations de Antichrist• ; I wish the World might see them: Whether they were with him when he was taken Prisoner and carried into France (where he died) I know not, I cannot hear of them in New-England.
In some Places of Scripture, by the Gentiles, the Romans, or the Roman Monarchy is meant,