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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.
says that Piscator not long before his Death, wrote a small Treatise of the future Happiness of the Church on Earth, out of which Manuscript he ingeniously confesseth he had taken many Things in that his Diatribe. Both Piscator and Alsted, and of our own Nation, Mr. Mede and Dr. Goodwin, long since, besides many learned Men more lately, have produced such Arguments to prove that what is spoken in the 20th Chapter of Revelation must be understood [Greek or Hebrew], Historically, and in the Letter, as cannot easily be answered. Let the following Arguments be duly weighed in the Balance of the Sanctuary.
says that Piscator not long before his Death, wrote a small Treatise of the future Happiness of the Church on Earth, out of which Manuscript he ingeniously confesseth he had taken many Things in that his Diatribe. Both Piscator and Alsted, and of our own Nation, Mr. Mede and Dr. Goodwin, long since, besides many learned Men more lately, have produced such Arguments to prove that what is spoken in the 20th Chapter of Revelation must be understood 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Historically, and in the Letter, as cannot easily be answered. Let the following Arguments be duly weighed in the Ballance of the Sanctuary.
1. It is a known, received Maxim among Divines, that in the Interpretation of Scripture we may not depart from the Literal Sense, if it will stand with the Analogy of Faith. For Men to make Allegories where there are none, is to obtrude their own Imaginations instead of Scripture. Now saith Mr. Mede (Fol. 943.) The 20th of Apocalypse, of all the Narrations in that Book, seems to be the most plain and simple, most free of Allegory, and of the Involution of Prophetical Figures. How can a Man then take a Passage of so plain, and ordinarily expressed Words as those about the First Resurrection are, in any other Sense than the usual and Literal.