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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.
Now taking it for granted that the Resurrection here spoken of, is that which shall be at the Judgment of the Great Day, this Text seems to be a very pregnant and clear Proof that the just shall rise unto everlasting Life a long Time before the wicked shall rise unto Shame and everlasting Contempt: For the Angel does plainly intimate, both that this Resurrection shall be when the Time, Times and half Time is fully expired; and when the King of the North, having planted the Tabernacles of his Palace between the Seas in the glorious holy Mountain, shall come to his End. But this King of the North will come to his End long before the ultimate Resurrection, as in the Sequel of our Discourse will be made to appear: Therefore some shall awake out of the Dust of the Earth unto Everlasting Life long before that. I omit here Mr. Burroughs's Argument (on Hos. 1. p. 133.) that standing up in this Resurrection is promised to Daniel as a special Favour to him as an eminent Saint, and that therefore the Place cannot be meant of the General Resurrection which shall be at the ultimate Judgment. What is that End of Days in which Daniel must stand up, that is, rise from the dead? Does it not mean that after the Time, Times and half a Time (when John also saith that the Mystery of God will be finished) are expired, this first Resurrection will begin.
Now taking it for granted that the Resurrection here spoken of, is that which shall be at the Judgment of the Great Day, this Text seems to be a very pregnant and clear Proof that the just shall rise unto everlasting Life a long Time before the wicked shall rise unto Shame and everlasting Contempt: For the Angel does plainly intimate, both that this Resurrection shall be when the Time, Times and half Time is fully expired; and when the King of the North, having planted the Tabernacles of his Palace between the Seas in the glorious holy Mountain, shall come to his End. But this King of the North will come to his End long before the ultimate Resurrection, as in the Sequel of our Discourse will be made to appear: Therefore some shall awake out of the Dust of the Earth unto Everlasting Life long before that. I omit here Mr. Burroughs's Argument (on Hos. 1. p. 133.) that standing up in this Resurrction is promised to Daniel as a special Favour to him as an eminent Saint, and that therefore the Place cannot be meant of the General Resurrection which shall be at the ultimate Judgment. What is that End of Days in which Daniel must stand up, that is, rise from the dead? Does it not mean that after the Time, Times and half a Time (when Iohn also saith that the Mystery of God will be finished) are expired, this first Resurrection will begin.