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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.
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 ⟨p. 12⟩in all Ages for Truth. Dr. Owen, in his judicious Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews (Vol. 1. p. 249.) has asserted that the Generality of the Nation of the Jews all the World over ••all be effectually called, with which Mercy they shall also […] Deliverance from their Captivity, a Restoration to their own Land, with a flourishing and happy Condition therein. He there says, the Thing it self is acknowledged, as far as I can understand, by all the World, that have any Acquaintance with these Things. Christians generally do assert it, look for it, pray for it, and have done so in all Ages, from the Days of the Apostles. Mahometans are not without some Thoughts of what shall befall the Jews before the End of the World. The Jews are in Expectation that the Messiah will come to them. We are in Expectation that they will come to him. And it may be this Difference may ere long be reconciled by his Appearance unto them, so calling them unto Faith and Obedience. Thus far Dr. Owen.
These Things considered I shall not change my Judgment, as to the Question in Controversie, 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 ⟨p. 12⟩in all Ages for Truth. Dr. Owen, in his judicious Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews (Vol. 1. p. 249.) has asserted that the Generality of the Nation of the Jews all the World over ••all be effectually called, with which Mercy they shall also 〈…〉 Deliverance from their Captivity, a Restoration to their own Land, with a flourishing and happy Condition therein. He there says, the Thing it self is acknowledged, as far as I can understand, by all the World, that have any Acquaintance with these Things. Christians generally do assert it, look for it, pray for it, and have done so in all Ages, from the Days of the Apostles. Mahometans are not without some Thoughts of what shall befall the Jews before the End of the World. The Jews are in Expectation that the Messiah will come to them. We are in Expectation that they will come to him. And it may be this Difference may ere long be reconciled by his Appearance unto them, so calling them unto Faith and Obedience. Thus far Dr. Owen.