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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.
As for the manner of their Conversion, I still incline (with Mr. Mede, Dr. Twice, Dr. Goodwin, Mr. Strong, and others) to think that it will be effected as Paul's was, by a miraculous Appearance of Christ to some of them, and be carried on by the Preaching of the Gospel, with a most glorious down pouring of the Holy Spirit therewith. My Reasons I have expressed in my Diatriba de signo filii hominis & secundo Messiae adventis; which was Printed at Amsterdam, Anno 1682. As to the Time of their Conversion, I have not much to say: The Turks keep them from possessing the Land of their Fathers. The Anonymous Author of the Book entitled Clavis Apocalyptica ad incudem revocata, (which Book I understand was written by one Mr. Cussion, Minister at Denvir in Norfolk ) supposeth the Apocalyptical Beast and the Turk will expire together, and that both will be in the Year 1701. and that the Jews will then have a complete and final Salvation.
As for the manner of their Conversion, I still encline (with Mr. Mede, Dr. Twisse, Dr. Goodwin, Mr. Strong, and others) to think that it will be effected as Paul's was, by a miraculous Appearance of Christ to some of them, and be carried on by the Preaching of the Gospel, with a most glorious down pouring of the Holy Spirit therewith. My Reasons I have expressed in my Diatriba de signo filii hominis & secundo Messiae adventis; which was Printed at Amsterdam, Anno 1682. As to the Time of their Conversion, I have not much to say: The Turks keep them from possessing the Land of their Fathers. The Anonymous Author of the Book entituled Clavis Apocalyptica ad incudem revocata, (which Book I understand was written by one Mr. Cussion, Minister at Denvir in Norfol• ) supposeth the Apocalyptical Beast and the Turk will expire together, and that both will be in the Year 1701. and that the Iews will then have a compleat and final Salvation.
That the Turkish Empire is near some fatal Catastrophe, not only the present Posture of Affairs there, but what is written in the Apocalypse gives us Ground to believe. The Turks were prepared and raised up to be a killing Scourge to the Apostate Christian World, for the Space of an Hour, a Day, a Month, and a Year,