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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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And I must confess that the Argument which Beza, Fayns, and others, (and of late Mr. Juri•u) have insisted on, has of a long Time been of weighty Consideration with me, scil. The Miracle by which God does preserve the Jewish Nation, distinguished from all other. It cannot be supposed that God would for Two Thousand Years preserve this People, scattered amongst other Nations, yet without mixing it self with them, if they were not preserved for some great Work. As if (says Dr. Fuller) they had learned from their River Jordan running through' the Galilean Sea, and not mingling therewith, to pass through' an Ocean of other Nations, and yet remain an unmixed People by themselves. A comfortable Presumption, (saith he, speaking after his witty and usual manner) that these Materials are thus carefully kept entire by themselves, because intended by Divine Providence for some Beautiful Building to be made of them hereafter.
And I must confess that the Argument which Beza, Fayns, and others, (and of late Mr. Iuri•u) have insisted on, has of a long Time been of weighty Consideration with me, scil. The Miracle by which God does preserve the Iewish Nation, distinguished from all other. It cannot be supposed that God would for Two Thousand Years preserve this People, scattered amongst other Nations, yet without mixing it self with them, if they were not preserved for some great Work. As if (says Dr. Fuller) they had learned from their River Iordan running thro' the Galilaean Sea, and not mingling therewith, to pass thro' an Ocean of other Nations, and yet remain an unmixed People by themselves. A comfortable Presumption, (saith he, speaking after his witty and usual manner) that these Materials are thus carefully kept entire by themselves, because intended by Divine Providence for some Beautiful Building to be made of them hereafter.
These Things considered I shall not change my Judgment, as to the Question in Controversy, until I meet with more convincing Arguments than what have been objected by Mr. Baxter, Dr. Lightfoot, or any other which I have seen. No Man ought (without very good Reason) to reject an Opinion tha• the whole Church of God, and a great Part of the World besides, has received