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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 hence some ha•• interpreted this Trumpet as intending the Publication of the Gospel for the Conversion of the Elect, supposing that the Coming of the Son of Man in the Clouds of Heaven with great Power and Glory, spoken of in the preceding Verse, has respect only to his Providential Coming unto the Destruction of Jerusalem. Thus Grotius, and his Admirer Dr. Hammond. But it is a dangerous Exposition that shall make such clear Proofs of our Lord's Second Personal Coming to be nothing but Metapho•• and Allegories. That Phrase of Christ• coming in the Clouds of Heaven is peculiar unto his Coming to begin the great Day of Judgment, Dan. 7.13. with Acts 1.11. His providential Coming to destroy Jerusalem was at the Beginning of the great Tribulation of the Jewish Nation; When as this Coming in the Clouds of Heaven is expressly said to […] after that Tribulation is ended, Ver. 29. That which Matthew expresseth by saying after the Tribulation of those Days, Luke expounds by saying Jerusalem shall be trodden down, until the Times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. This then is one Scripture which seems to indigitate a Resurrection of the righteous as precedaneous to that of the wicked. Another Scripture which seems to speak no less, is that Luke 14.14, 15. where we read of Blessedness, and Recompenses, and the Kingdom of God at the Resurrection of the just. The ultimate Resurrection will be a Resurrection of the unjust: It is called a Resurrection of Damnation, John 5.29. The Righteous shall rise and reign long before that. The Expression seems clearly to import that there is a Resurrection peculiar to the Righteous, therefore called the Resurrection of the just. And in Luke 20.35. It is said, They are the Children of God, being the Children of the Resurrection. Laurentius in his Problem, De Regno Millenario, p. 25 argues thus, The universal Resurrection is not proper to the Children of God; but the Resurrection spoken of in Luke 20