A dissertation concerning the future conversion of the Jewish Nation. Answering the objections of…

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, Revel. 13.14. It is said that after the thousand Years are finished Satan must be loosed a little Season: But according to the mentioned Interpretations, the Thousand Years were expired Four Hundred Years ago, which is more than a little Season, compared with a Thousand Years. But why then is not Gog and Magog destroyed by Fire from Heaven, nor the ultimate Judgment here? which without doubt it will be within less than Four Hundred Years after the Millennium.

Many Learned Men have thought that the Thousand Years began either at the Birth or Death of our Saviour, or at the Destruction of Ierusalem, 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 deceiv'd the Nations within these Thousand Years last past as much as ever since the World began. Has he not deceiv'd the Nations by his Prophet Mahomet? And has he not deceiv'd the Nations by Antichrist? It is strange that any Man should imagine that Satan has not deceiv'd 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,