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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.
Argum. 2. If the Thousand Years are not past, but future, and if the Day of Judgment will be here within less than th•se Thousand Years, then undoubtedly the Day of Judgment does begin with the Apocalyptical Chiliad: But both these are true.
Argum. 2. If the Thousand Years are not past, but future, and if the Day of Iudgment will be here within less than th•se Thousand Years, then undoubtedly the Day of Iudgment does begin with the Apocalyptical Chiliad: But both these are true.
Many Learned Men have thought that the Thousand Years began either at the Birth or Death of our Saviour, or at the Destruction of Jerusalem, or when Constantine the first Christian Emperor was enthroned. This last Opinion is followed by many that have wrote on the Apocalypse: But the Reign or Prosperity of Christians under Constantine continued not a Thousand, nor for more than Twenty or Thirty Years before unhappy Changes attended them. From the Beginning to the End of the Millennium Satan is bound, which hitherto he has never been. If the Devil's Hands have been bound for a Thousand Years, how then has he been able to strike the Church with such cruel Persecutions? And as much since Constantine's Time as before. Some say this Ligation of Satan does not imply his being kept from persecuting the Church, only from being able to deceive the Nations. But he has deceived the Nations within these Thousand Years last past as much as ever since the World began. Has he not deceived the Nations by his Prophet Mahomet? And has he not deceived the Nations by Antichrist? It is strange that any Man should imagine that Satan has not deceived the Nations since Antichrist came, when the Apostle says his coming is after the working of Satan, with lying Wonders, and with all deceivableness of Unrighteousness, 2 Thess. 2.9, 10. And if the Nations have not been deceived since Constantine, how is it said of the Beast, that he deceives them that dwell on the Earth,