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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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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.
Argum. 1. Because Daniel's Day of Judgment, with the universal Kingdom, and John's Thousand Years are the same. I shall not spend Time to prove that the 7th Chapter of Daniel speaks of Christ's Personal Coming to Judgment. It is wonderful that any Men of Learning should deny it, and affirm that what is spoken in that Chapter is already accomplished. But was the Beast given to the burning Flame at Christ's first Personal Coming? Was the Man of Sin destroyed Four Hundred Years before he was born? Was the Dominion under the whole Heaven given to the Saints of the most High at Christ's First Coming, who told his Disciples that they must expect Sufferings, and not Dominion in this World: Nor in the Interpretation of others to be admitted, which supposeth that Daniel speaks only of a Virtual Coming of Christ, by the Power and Presence of his Spirit. Such Expositions are dangerous, inasmuch as they have a Tendency to weaken the Faith of Men concerning a Fundamental Article in Religion. There is not a more pregnant and illustrious Place in all the Old Testament to prove Christ's Personal Coming to Judgment, than that in the 7th of Daniel, when he shall come with a fiery Stream issuing before him, and ten thousand times ten thousand Angels waiting on him; i. e. when he shall be revealed from Heaven in flaming Fire with his mighty Angels, he will come to Judgment. Now this is that Coming of Christ to receive an universal Kingdom which Daniel speaks of. But John's Thousand Years is the same with this as appears; 1. In that they begin at the same Time, sil. at the Final Destruction of Antichrist. When the Beast is destroyed, and his Body given to the burning Flame, does Daniel's Day of Judgment and universal Kingdom begin, Chap. 7. Ver. 10, 11, 26, 27. When the Beast is cast alive into the Lake of Fire, then does John's Thousand Years begin,