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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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3. Piscator has another Argument which is to this Purpose, They who after they live again shall be and reign with Christ, do rise in Respect of their Bodies. Now this is affirmed of the Subjects of the First Resurrection; They lived and reigned with Christ, and they were Priests of God and of Christ, and reigned with him a Thousand Years. Piscator indeed supposes it to be a reigning with Christ in Heaven after the Resurrection: But the Saints in Heaven shall not reign for a Thousand Years, but on Earth they shall, it must therefore be meant of a Reign not in Heaven, but on Earth.
4. As is the Death of those Reigning Saints, such will be their Resurrection: But their Death was of their Bodies: For it is said they were beheaded, which implies a Natural Death. The Romans did usually, and the Jews often put Men to Death (as John Baptist was) by cutting off their Heads with a Sword. Although' ⟨p. 20⟩it is said Souls that were beheaded, that does not in the least imply that the Death spoken of was a Spiritual Death peculiar to the Soul; for how can an immortal Soul be beheaded? But frequently in Scripture the Soul is put for the Person, Gen. 46.26. Ezek. 44.25. nay for the Body; As when it is said, Thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell. i. e. my Body in the Grave, Psal. 16.10. The martyred sacrificed Bodies of the Saints, are said to be Souls slain, which cry for Vengeance, Rev. 6.9. Dr. Goodwin observes well, their Resurrection to Life must be taken in the same Sense and Proportion to the Life they lost. Inasmuch then as the Natural Lives of the […] were taken away, their Living implies a Resurrection of their Bodies, for their Souls to be re-united with and live in. The Argument stands thus, A Resurrection of the dead in Body is a Corporal Resurrection; but the First Resurrection is a Resurrection of the dead in Body; for it is a Resurrection of them that were beheaded.