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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.
WE have in the preceding Chapter endeavoured by clear Testimony of Scripture to evince that the dead in Christ shall rise a long Time before ⟨p. 24⟩the universal Resurrection: We go on to confirm our Assertion by some further Arguments grounded on Scripture Revelation.
WE have in the preceeding Chapter endeavoured by clear Testimony of Scripture to evince that the dead in Christ shall rise a long Time before ⟨p. 24⟩the universal Resurrection: We go on to confirm our Assertion by some further Arguments grounded on Scripture Revelation.
Reas. 5. If the Day of Judgment does begin with the Apocalyptical Chiliad, then the Resurrection of the Just will be a Thousand Years before the universal Resurrection. This Proposition none will deny. I assume, But the Day of Judgment will begin with the Apocalyptical Chiliad. If this be well proved, we gain all that we contend for. There are Two Arguments for it, which for my own Par•• cannot answer, and therefore must believe the First Resurrection to be Corporal, until I see a clear and solid Answer to them.
Reas. 5. If the Day of Iudgment does begin with the Apocalyptical Chiliad, then the Resurrection of the Iust will be a Thousand Years before the universal Resurrection. This Proposition none will deny. I assume, But the Day of Judgment will begin with the Apocalyptical Chiliad. If this be well proved, we gain all that we contend for. There are Two Arguments for it, which for my own Par•• cannot answer, and therefore must believe the First Resurrection to be Corporal, until I see a clear and solid Answer to them.