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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.
Because the Scripture does intimate that some shall rise from the dead when others shall not, they have fondly supposed that none but Israelites shall have a Resurrection from the dead. It is a celebrious Saying amongst them, That there are four Things which Israelites are privileged with above all the Nations of the Earth, viz. Prophecy, the Law, the Holy Land, and the Resurrection. Vid. Buxtorf. Synagogue. Judaic. Cap. 3. Edit. Bas••. 1661.
Because the Scripture does intimate that some shall rise from the dead when others shall not, they have fondly supposed that none but Israelites shall have a Resurrection from the dead. It is a celebrious Saying amongst them, That there are four Things which Israelites are priviledg'd with above all the Nations of the Earth, viz. Prophecy, the Law, the Holy Land, and the Resurrection. Vid. Buxtorf. Synagog. Iudaic. Cap. 3. Edit. Bas••. 1661.
There are judicious Interpreters who suppose that the Angel speaketh of a First Resurrection in Dan. 12.2. where it is said that many of them who sleep in the Dust of the Earth shall awake: Since it is not said All, but Many that sleep awake, when as at the Day of Judgment, not only many, but All will rise. Mr. Brightman and Mr. Huit, in their Commentaries on Daniel, are of Opinion that it is only a Mystical Resurrection of the Jewish Nation which is there spoken of; with whom I perceive my worthy Friend Mr. Samuel Clark in his Notes on that Place does concur. But the Reason alleged has no Cogency in it: For (as Glass•us observes) Many is in the Scripture taken, [Greek or Hebrew], for All, Isa. 52.15. Rom. 5.15, 19. and 12.8. We may not unnecessarily recede from a Literal Interpretation. And inasmuch as the Jewish Church did build her Faith of the Resurrection on this Text in Daniel in a special Manner, (as may be seen in Manasseh-Ben-Israel in his Book De Resurrectione) I think we should not exclude the Literal Sense of the Words.