Quotes on Postmillennialism and Prophecy

This page is to be regularly updated with new quotes that we come across by the Puritans and others on the above subjects. Please note that the newest quotes will be added at the top of this page so you can easily tell if it has been updated since your last visit.

N.B. Not all the Authors quoted below are endorsed

What Will Happen

“Salvation shall spread through all the tribes and ranks of mankind, as the lightening from heaven in a few moments would communicate a living flame through ten thousand lamps and torches placed in a proper situation and neighborhood. Thus a nation shall be born in a day when our Redeemer please, and his faithful and obedient subjects shall become as numerous as the spires of grass in a meadow newly mown, and refreshed with the showers of heaven.”

Isaac Watts & John Guyse, Unknown

Our Confident Hope

“…the predictions of holy writ, and the grant made to Christ of the heathen for his inheritance and uttermost parts of the earth for his possession, hold out to us, not merely the encouraging hope, but the confident assurance, that his church shall yet exhibit a character of actual universality;–that its light shall yet beam over all lands, and that all that dwell on the face of the wide earth shall unite in the belief of the same truth, the worship of the same God, the enjoyment of the same salvation, and the practice of the same holy obedience.”

William Symington, Messiah the Prince, p.137

Pray for the Jews

“They forget a main point of the Church’s glory, who pray not daily for the conversion of the Jews.”

Robert Leighton {Puritan-Minded Episcoplalian}, Unknown

Hope

“Faith imbued with zeal for the hounour of Christ and the glory of God will have no sympathy with the defeatism which is, after all, but disguised fatalism. He who is head over all things is head over all things to his body the Church. He has all authority in heaven and in earth. And he is the Lord of the Spirit. Implicit in the prayer he taught his deciples to pray, ‘thy will be done as in heaven so in earth’, is the prayer that the whole earth should be filled with his praise. Nothing less is the measure of the believer’s desire. ‘And blessed be his glorious name for ever; and let the whole earth be filled with his glory.’ [Ps. 72 v. 19]“

Prof. John Murray, Collected Writings Vol. 2, p.350

Things to Come

“Prophecy shows that a time is coming when the Kingdom of Christ shall triumph over all opposition and prevail in all the world. The Romish Antichrist shall be utterly destroyed. The Jews shall be converted to Christianity. The fullness of the Gentiles shall be brought in and all mankind shall possess the knowledge of the Lord. The truth in its illuminating, regenerating and sanctifying efficacy shall be felt everywhere, so that the multitudes of all nations shall serve the Lord. Knowledge, love, holiness, and peace shall reign through the abundant outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Arts, sciences, literature, and property shall be consecrated to the advancement of the kingdom of Christ. The social institutions of men shall be regulated by gospel principles, and the nations as such shall consecrate their strength to the Lord. Oppression and tyranny shall come to an end. The nations, instead of being distracted by wars, shall be united in peace. The inhabitants of the world shall be exceedingly multiplied, and pure and undefiled religion shall exert supreme dominion over their hearts and lives so that happiness shall abound. This blessed period shall be of long duration. It will be succeeded by a time of general defection from truth and holiness, and of the prevalence of irreligion and crime. This will immediately precede the second coming of the Son of man from heaven.”

The 1901 Testimony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, p.?

The Generality of Mankind

“There will come a time when the generality of mankind, both Jew and Gentile, shall come to Jesus Christ.”

Thomas Goodwin {Puritan}, Unknown

‘An Energy of Influence on Society Hitherto Unknown’

“…we feel disposed to regard it as something more than a baseless vision of imagination which leads us to hope that the period is not distant when the mighty principles of the Westminster Standards shall be more extensively recognised than they have ever yet been, and shall put forth an energy of influence on society hitherto unknown.”

William Symington, Historical Sketch of the Westminster Assembly, pp.42-43

Our Elder Brethren

“O to see the sight, next to Christ’s coming in the clouds, the most joyful! Our elder brethren the Jews and Christ fall upon one another’s necks and kiss each other.”

Samuel Rutherford {Covenanter}, Unknown

The Calling of the Jews

“The faithful Jews rejoiced to think of the calling of the Gentiles; and why should not we joy to think of the calling of the Jews?”

Richard Sibbes {Puritan}, Unknown

The Jews and the End of the World

“The end of this world shall not be till the Jews are called, and how long after that none yet can tell.”

Elnathan Parr {Puritan}, Unknown

That Most Glorious Time

“Undoubtedly, that people of the Jews shall once more be commanded to arise and shine, and their return shall be the riches of the Gentiles (Rom 11:12), and that shall be a more glorious time than ever the Church of God did yet behold.”

Robert Leighton {Anglican Puritan}, Unknown

The Need for a Sense of Gospel Victory in Our Eschatology

“The omission of the gospel victory theme in much of modern eschatology should be lamented. Its replacement with a defeatist scheme for Christian enterprise has paralysed the Christian cultural enterprise, emptied the Christian worldview of potential significance, and given Christians a sinful “comfort in lethargy”, because it tends “to justify social irresponsibility” (Ted Peters). It has left the earth (which is the Lord’s Psa. 24:1) to a conquered foe and the enemy of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. This paralysis is all the more lamentable because it has caused the forfeiture of great gains made by the tireless and costly labours of our Christian forefathers, particularly form the Reformation even through the the early 1900s.”

Kenneth Gentry, He Shall Have Dominion, p. 17