Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

ARTICLE XIV. Sober Chiliasm.

About the Year, 1665. the World was Alarmed with Rumours of Motions among the Jews in several Parts of the World, that made some who were Waiting for the Consolation of Israel, to hope, that the Lord was going to set His Hand again the second time, to recover the Remnant of His People, and assemble the Outcasts of Israel, and gather together the Dispersed of Judah. Mr. Mather Preached a Monthly Lecture, whereof all his Reward here was, that a Subscription was made and paid for the Support of a Godly Gentleman, an Elder of his Church, that lay some Years Confined and Languishing under a Palsy: And he took this Occasion, to give his Auditory some Elaborate & Judicious Lectures on that Mystery; Rom. XI. 26. All Israel shall be Saved. In those ⟨p. 62⟩Lectures, he Declared, That he verily Believed the Motions then talked of would come to nothing; and that the Time for Favour, the sat Time, would not yet come on. But he maintained, That a Time would come, when the Israelitish Nation should be Converted from their Infidelity, and Restored unto the Possession of their Promised Land, and have a Glorious Kingdom of GOD erected among them, and thorough them Extended unto the Gentiles. These Lectures were quickly afterwards Published in London; and they were not only Accompanied with Prefatory Recommendations from such Eminent Persons as Mr. Davenport, and Mr. Greenhil, and Mr. Hook; but also, tho' he were but a Young Man of about Six or Seven and Twenty, the Renowned Mr. Caryl, when he Read the Book, passed that Judgment upon it, That it was a Rare Thing to find any where a Conjunction of so much Learning & so much Piety, as there was in the Author of that Incomparable Treatise. And it was a little Diverting unto him, above Twenty Years after, to meet with Gentlemen in London, who Complemented him, as having long ago read an Incomparable Treatise, Written (as they Supposed) by his Learned, and Pious, and Excellent Father, upon, The Mystery of the Salvation of Israel

ABout the Year, 1665. the World was Alarmed with Rumours of Motions among the Jews in several Parts of the World, that made some who were Waiting for the Consolation of Israel, to hope, that the Lord was going to set His Hand again the second time, to recover the Remnant of His People, and assemble the Outcasts of Israel, and gather together the Dispersed of Judah. Mr. Mather Preached a Monthly Lecture, whereof all his Reward here was, that a Subscription was made and paid for the Support of a Godly Gentleman, an Elder of his Church, that lay some Years Confined and Languishing under a Palsey: And he took this Occasion, to give his Auditory some Elaborate & Judicious Lectures on that Mystery;