Dispensationalism before Darby: Seventeenth-Century and Eighteenth-Century English Apocalypticism by William C. Watson

Author:William C. Watson [Watson, William C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lampion Press
Published: 2015-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

1Jeffrey Jue, Heaven Upon Earth: Joseph Mede (1586-1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism (Dortrecht: Springer, 2006), 175; referring to Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (New York: Macmillam Company, 1939). Miller reiterated this in a later rewrite, The New England Mind: From Colony to Province (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953), especially in chapter 6, “Children of the Covenant” and in his later book Errand into the Wilderness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956), especially in chapter 10 “The End of the World.”

2Paul Boyer, “Apocalypticism Explained,” PBS Frontline intervierw on colonial Puritan exchatology, airdate November 22, 1988. See also James West Davidson, The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England (New Have: Yale University Press, 1977) and James Holstun, A Rational Millennium: Puritan Utopias of Seventeenth Century England and America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).

3Reiner Smolenski, “Apocalypticism in Colonial North America,” in Seven Stein ed. The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism: Volume 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (New York: 1998), 37, in Jeffrey Jue, 176-77.

4See chapter 15 “Apocalypticism in the American Revolution” for these examples.

5John Cotton, The Powringovt of the Seven Vials: or an Exposition of the 16. Chapter of the Revelation (London, 1642), title page.

6Ibid., 1.

7Ibid., 16.

8John Cotton, The Churches Resurrection, or the Opening of the Fift and sixt verses of the 20th Chap of Revelation (London, 1642), 5.

9Ibid., 8-11.

10Ibid., 13.

11Ibid., 17-18.

12John Cotton, An Exposition upon the Thirteenth Chapter of the Revelation (London, 1656), 4-7.

13Ibid., 258.

14Ibid., 260-61.

15Epraim Huit, The whole Prophecie of Daniel Explained, by a Paraphrase, Analysis and briefe Comment (London, 1643), preface.

16Ibid., 1.

17Ibid., 187-89.

18Ibid., 204-207.

19Ibid., 207-208

20Ibid., 332-33.

21Ibid., 331, 343-34.

22Ibid., 347.

23Ibid., 348-56 (second time as pagination error caused a repetition).

24Thomas Parker, The Visions and Prophecies of Daniel Expounded: Wherin Mistakes of Former Intepreters … . (London,1646), 1-13.

25Ibid., 27-28.

26Ibid., 31.

27Ibid., 138-41. Parker also mentioned that it was six years after Byzantine emperor Phocus made Pope Gregory “the universal bishop” according to a quote in Nathaniel Homes, Resurrection Revealed (London, 1653), 559.

28Ibid., 152-53.

29Ibid., preface.

30Ibid., 146.

31Ibid., 147.

32Davenport’s sermon is lost, but is mentioned in Samuel Hutchinson’s Declaration of a Future Glorious Estate (London, 1667), 22.

33W[illiam] H[ooke], “An Epistle to the Reader” preface to Increase Mather, The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation (n.p.[Boston], 1669), no pagination.

34Ibid. Hooke noted “that Learned man Mr. Mede (who was no phanatick, as the Prelates themselves will grant) … This kingdom of Christ must be placed (as he saith) between Christs appearing in his kingdom, and the last Resurrection of all the world unto general Judgment.”

35Ibid., no pagination.

36Ibid., no pagination.

37Ibid.

38William Hooke, “To the Reader,” n.p.

39Ibid.

40Increase Mather, The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation Explained and Applyed (n.p.[Boston or New Haven], 1669), Author’s Preface.

41Ibid. Mather is incorrect in his understanding of Origen, who was anti-millennialism.

42Ibid, 3-4.

43Ibid., 4-7.

44Increase Mather, Dissertation Concerning the Future Conversion of the Jewish Nation, (1709), 1.

45Ibid., 2.

46Ibid., 7. (See Chapters 11 and 12 for discussions of Richard Baxter).

47Ibid. 8. He cites Brightman to support his position; disagrees with Baxter and Lightfoot, but respects them generally. (See Chapters 11 and 12 for discussions of Hugo Grotius.

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