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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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Since that I have met with some others who have written on this Subject. There is an Anonymous Author has published a Book with this Title, Tractatus de Regno Ecclesiae glorious. In which there are Eight-Chapters of the future Vocation of the Jews. I have somewhere read that Brenius was the Author of that Treatise. Jacobus Alting (Son of the famous Henry Alting) has emitted a large Tract on Rom. 11. in which he does strenuously endeavour to prove a future Vocation of the Jews. It seems by his Preface that Bishop Reynolds had seen and did approve of what he writes. And I perceive by Mr. Jurieu, (p. 395.) that Whitsius, one of the learned Professors at Utrecht, has lately written on this Subject, and that he does not only acknowledge a future Conversion of the Jews, but that they shall return to their own Land again, and rebuild Jerusalem; which is a Thing doubted of by many who are clear for their Conversion; but that Book I have not yet seen. It confirms me in my old Opinion very much, when I see a Person qualified with Dr. Lightfoot's great Sagacity and Depth of Judgment, as well as Piety, (for these things are conspicuous in him) has no more to say against it. Besides, Vol. 1. p. 732. in order to the Confutation of Millenaries, he has several Positions which he lays down as Articles, c. g. That the Bo•k of Daniel speaks nothing of the State of the Jews beyond the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus. That the Revelation intends not the Times in Daniel, but begins where Daniel left. That the Fourth Monarchy in Daniel is not Rome. That the Blasphemous Horn in Dan. 7.8, 25. is not Antichrist, but Antiochus, &c. Now if we must either admit of those Positions, (the contrary whereunto has by many been evinced from Scripture Light, to me as clear as Mathematical Demonstration) or else receive the common Opinion of the Jews Conversion, and be Millenaries, for my Part I must sooner believe both than believe any one of the mentioned Articles, which the Learned Doctor is so positive in.
Since that I have met with some others who have written on this Subject. There is an Anonymous Author has published a Book with this Title, Tractatus de Regno Ecclesiae glorios•. In which there are Eight-Chapters of the future Vocation of the Iews. I have somewhere read that Brenius was the Author of that Treatise. Iacobus Alting (Son of the famous Henry Alting) has emitted a large Tract on