A dissertation concerning the future conversion of the Jewish Nation. Answering the objections of…

So that to say there is no Hope of their Conversion, because they are of the Brood of Antichrist, seems not to be an Argument of Weight enough to cause us to recede from that which has been the received Opinion of most Christians, as the Doctor acknowledges this of the Jews future Conversion to have been.

So that to say there is no Hope of their Conversion, because they are of the Brood of Antichrist, seems not to be an Argument of Weight enough to cause us to recede from that which has been the received Opinion of most Christians, as the Doctor acknowledges this of the Iews future Conversion to have been.

He does moreover object that the Drift of the Apostle in that eminent Place, Rom. 11. is not to show that the Jews shall be all hereafter called, only to prove that they were not wholly cast off. But it is clear that the Design of the Apostle is to convince those Gentiles of their Error who insulted over the Blind and rejected Jewish Nation. He therefore tells them that not only some of the then Jews did belong to Election, but that the Obduration which the Body of that Nation was punished with, was only, [Greek or Hebrew], for a Time, until the Fullness of the Gentiles should come in, and that then all Israel should be saved, v. 26. To say that he intends the Elect, or Spiritual Israel, is against the Drift of his whole Discourse, who throughout the 9th, 10th, and 11th Chapters, speaks of Israel according to the Flesh. Besides, he says he would acquaint them with a Mystery which before they we•• ignorant of, v. 25. It was no Mystery to them that all the Elect should be saved: But tho' the Prophets had declared it, they were as ignorant of a future Conversion of the Jews, as the believing Jews were of the Conversion of the Gentiles, which seemed a very strange Doctrine to them: Although' it was revealed unto, and foretold by the Prophets, they did not of a long Time understand it. Now if the Apostle speaks of the Natural Israel, nothing can be imagined more clear and express for a National Conversion of the Jews than those his Words are. For the Salvation of all Israel cannot intend a few, or any thing less than a National Conversion. All Israel in due Time to be converted, is put in Opposition to a Remnant, and to the diminutive Number that were saved in the Apostles Days. This Salvation of all Israel is called their Fullness, and their being received again, v. 12, 15. The future Conversion of the Jews will equalize that of the Gentiles. Now the Conversion of the Gentiles has been National: Hence it is said the World, i. e. Gentile Nations, have been reconciled; their future Conversion will be like their present Rejection: Now that is not of a few particular Persons, but of the Body of the Nation. But my present Design being rather to show the Invalidity of what is objected against the received Opinion, than by positive Arguments