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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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It has been a commonly received Opinion, and much is to be said for it, that as the World was Six days in making, so the Duration if it shall be Six •••usand Years. Thus amongst the Jews do there Masters teach. Thus also Irenaeus Cyprian, nay and Austin himself who was no Chiliast, and others of the Ancients, and very many of our Modern Divines. Now the World will quickly be Six Thousand Years Old. According to the Chronology of the Samaritan Pentateuch, in the Year of Christ 1736. the World will be just Six Thousand. In that Year also (as Mr. Mede observes) the Twelve Hundred and Sixty •ays of the Beast's Reign will expire, reckoning from the Deposition of Augustu•••, the last Roman Emperor. Moreover, Antichrist will not be totally destroyed before Christ's coming to Judgment. It is plain from Daniel that the Beast, as […] by the wicked Horn, must continue until the Day that the World shall be on […] ▪ And that Horn shall make War with the Saints until the Ancient of Days cometh, •an. 7.11, 21, 22. And Paul says concerning the Man of Sin, that the Lord •aith destroy him with the Brightness of his coming, 2 Thes. 2.8. which Expositor• generally and truly interpret as meant of his Personal coming to Judgment. And it is clear from Psal. 1. that the Apostle there intends no other coming. […] ver. 3. Antichrist shall not only be cast into the Lake of Fire, but cast […] to it, because he is destroyed with the Fire in which Christ will be revealed from Heaven at the great Day of his Second Appearance. Is not Antichrist Comprehended under that God of whom Ezekiel has Prophesied, that the Lord shall rain upon him great Hailstones, Fire and Brimstone, Ezek. 38.22. viz. at the Battle of Armageddon, When the Lord with his Mighty Ones shall come down and •it to Judge the Nations, Revel. 16.16. with