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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.
They that begin his Reign latest confess that he was to be seen in the Year Six Hundred and Six. The Truth is, he was then a Man above an Hundred Years Old. But suppose him to be •ewly born then, he cannot live longer than the Year 1866. Therefore the coming of Christ to Judgment will be here in much less than a Thousand Years. And then in as much as the Apocalyptical Chiliad is not past but future, it follows undeniably that the Millennial Reign falls within the compass of the Day of Judgment, and consequently that there shall be a Resurrection of the Just, antecedaneous to the Universal Resurrection. But thus for the Fifth Reason. I shall add but one more.
Reason. 6. The Lord Jesus will no sooner come in Person from Heaven into this Visible World, but there […] be a Resurrection of the Just. For this the Scriptures are clear, nor is there any Controversy about it. 1 Cor. 15.21. 1 Thes. 3.13. […] our Lord will appear the Second •ime unto Salvation, long before the Resurrection of the Wicked. It was showed but now, that Antichrist will not be finally and totally ⟨p. 27⟩destroyed before the Coming of the Lord. But Antichrist will be totally destroyed a Thousand Years before the Universal Resurrection, We read of the Beast and False Prophet being cast alive into the Lake of Fire, before any thing is spoken of the Millennial Reign; and at the End of the Thousand Ye•r•, when Gog and Magog, and the Devil that deceived them, are cast into the Lake of Fire, they find the Beast and False Prophet there, Revel. 20.10. So that they had been dead and in Hell during all the Thousand Years. I confess this was one of the first Arguments which did above Twenty Years since induce me to believe a particular Resurrection at the beginning of the Thousand Years; I could never answer it, I saw clearly by what is spoken by Daniel and Paul, as well as by John, in the Revelation, that at the Final Destruction of Antichrist there will be a Personal Coming of Christ, and that the World will then be on a light Fire. And I saw that after this Perdition of the Man of Sin, there shall be a Glorious Reign of the Saints on Earth.