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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59398	Phænomena quædam apocalyptica ad aspectum novi orbis configurata, or, Some few lines towards a description of the new heaven as it makes to those who stand upon the new earth by Samuel Sewall ...	Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730.	1697 (1697)	Wing S2821; ESTC R8014	63,652	68

not be very strict with us as to the particular branch of that Wide Family as the Breadth of his Parenthesis shews Well then the Americans are not Cham's children nor heirs of his Curse as some have guessed That Obstacle is removed out of the way of their Conversion And by this Argument it may be more firmly proved that Englishmen shall be Gog Magog for without controversie ●●28 ●●●mbden Erit 〈◊〉 132. ●●id USSER ●●e Brit. Eccl. ●●rimordijs p. ●90 395 ●●equitur dein●●e Anglia Ve●us c. they are originally Cimbrians as Pontanus affirms Rerum Danic Hist lib. 1. p. 12. lib. 2. p. 58 80. Some learned Authors conjecture that they are derived from the very Sacae mentioned by our Author Verstegan p. 14 20. And this Opinion finds Favour with Cambden in his excellent Britannia p. 129. Howbeit that conceipt of the best learned Germans may seem worthy acceptance who suppose that the Saxons descended from the Sacae a most noble Nation and of much worth in Asia and so called Sacosones that is the Sons of the Sacae Well may New-England brook its Name seeing as to its Inhabitants it is every way of Kin to England And Mr. Roger Williams's Key into the Language of America hath one ward more than ever I was aware of p. 53. Boast not proud English of thy birth and blood Thy brother Indian is by birth as good Make sure thy second Birth Act. 17.26 Ephes 2.3 else thou shalt see Heaven ope to Indians wilde but shut to thee As for the confounding of the Gog and Magog in the Revelation with Ezekiel's the confusion which our Author would have others avoid he himself seems partly to fall into in making the Americans Magogiticae gentis colonias seeing John his Gog and Magog are not brought upon the Stage till a Thousand Years hence Moreover if there be any thing in being descended of the Scythians to entail the Curse of Gog and Magog t will make the Argument more strong to bring them from Asia and Europe for no body doubts but that there are of their Offspring in those parts Not to insist on the Opinion received in China and credited by Antonius Galvanus that the Americans are Colonies sent from that Nation The principal Design of Mr. Fuller's whole Discourse appears in the last clause of it the sence of which is this WHEREFORE forasmuch as unto Europe and the Northern parts of Asia there is the Accession of the New World a surplussage of boundless Bigness and is fallen by right of Inheritance to Japheth To Have and to Hold to him and his Heirs for Ever It cannot be denied but that the prophetical Bl●ssing of the Patriarch is perfectly and absolutely fulfilled and that Japheth was most truly so called as unto whom God would give Enlargement h. e. grant for a Double Portion a most huge Tract of Land of marvellous Extent and that not upon a scanty and strict but upon a most Large and Liberal admeasurement But now the calculation of this Chapter turns all this Blessing into a Curse all this Bread and Fish into Stones and Serpents Who had not rather be without a Portion than have one so ill Condition'd So then from Mr. Fuller's Design this Conjecture doth toto Caelo errare and as with submission I conceive from the Truth it self If it appear so to do Mr. Mede would have it known that his Desire is Not to have it any longer reckened to have been spoken or written by Him Epist Lectori p. 540. With this Sentence ●ull of so much Candor I take leave of the worthy Author as to this Controversy But I would not separate Mr. Nicholas Fuller from Dr. Thomas Fuller for Names sake Amongst many of his pleasant and profitable Writings there is his Holy State the 16th Chapter treating of Plantations hath this passage in the close of it I am confident that America tho the youngest Sister of the four is now grown marriageable and daily hopes to get Christ to her Husband by the preaching of the Gospel This makes me attentively to listen after some Protestant First-fruits in hope the Harvest will ripen afterwards Lift up your heads O ye Gates of Columbina and be ye lift up ye Everlasting Doors and the KING of Glory shall come in This SCRIPTURE would have made a most desirable pleasant Conclusion of this small disquisition but that the Reader may expect to see what Renowned Dr. Twisse hath written in compliance with the forementioned Conjecture because every one is not so happy as to be Owner of Mr. Mede's Works It seems Dr Twisse did at first keck and strain at our Authors Millennium as to the proper and personal Resurrection of the Saints To facilitate the swallowing of it Mr. Mede sent him his Conjecture inclosed in a Letter dated January 31. 1634 5. Epist 41. p. 975. I perceive what it is that most pincheth you in the Millenarian Prophecy to wit that of Gog and Magog Wherefore I send you inclosed herewith my C●●j●cture thereof c. This is the first appearance of it that I remember and was in manuscript probably by the care to return it again speedily But it may make an Inhabitant of Columbina rather question the Truth of such a Millennium than confirm him in the belief of it if it require such Aid Dr. Twisse his Answer to this Letter bears dare the 2d of March next following out of which I have transcribed the Paragraph that chiefly concerns the Conjecture which is as followeth NOW I beseech you let me know what your Opinion is of our English Plantations in the New World Heretofore I have wondered in my thoughts at the Providence of God concerning that World not discovered till this Old World of ours is almost at an end and then no footsheps found of the knowledge of the True God much less of Christ And then considering our English Plantations of late and the Opinion of many grave Divines concerning the Gespel's fleeting Westward so●●ti●res I have had such thoughts ☞ Why may not that be the Place of NEW JERU●ALEM But you have handsomly and fully cleared me from such odd conceits But what I pray shall our English there degenerate and joyn themselves with Gog and Magog We have heard lately divers ways that our people there have no hope of the Conversion of the Natives And the very Week after I received your last Letter I saw a Letter written from New England discoursing of an impossibility of subsisting there and seems to prefer the Consission of God's Truth in any condition here in Old England rather than run over to enjoy their liberty there yea and that the Gospel is like to be more dear in New England than in Old and lastly unless they be exceeding carefull and God wonderfully mercifull they are like to lose that life and zeal for God and his Truth in New England which they enjoyed in Old as whereof they have already wofull