He Shall Have Dominion

promulgate, over the minds of men; whereby the worship of God
should be confirmed, and the rites of superstition abolished. 75
His Proof of the Gospel (aka: Demonstration of the Gospel) provides even
stronger evidence for his postmillennialesque expectations. Consider the
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following material, where he argues that the Apostles:
could preach the good news that though one race were lost every
nation and race of men would know God, escape from the daemons,
cease from ignorance and deceit and enjoy the light of holiness:
they could picture the disciples of Christ filling the whole world
with their teaching, and the preaching of their gospel introducing
among all men a fresh and unknown ideal of holiness: they could
see churches of Christ established by their means among all nations,
and Christian people throughout the whole world bearing one
common name. (Proof 1:1 §7)
According to Isaiah, it will be when they behold this very
salvation that all men will worship the supreme God, Who has
bestowed His salvation on all ungrudgingly. . . . The oracle shall be
fulfilled which said that all men should call no longer on their
ancestral gods, nor on idols, nor on daemons, but on the Name of
the Lord, and shall serve Him under one yoke. (Proof 2:3 §61)
There is a prophecy of the whole race of mankind turning away
from the error of idolatry, and coming to know the God of Israel.
(Proof 2:3 §78)
Understand then how the holy Scriptures prophesy that one and
the same Being, Christ by name, Who is also Son of God, is to be
plotted against by men, to receive the nations for His inheritance,
and to rule over the ends of the earth. (Proof 4:16 §184)
The prophetic Spirit darkly tells of the subjection of the
different nations, which shall be subject to the One of Whom
[Isaiah] prophesies, and how they will worship Him as God, how
they will pray in His name. (Proof 5:4 §225)
And He clearly prophesies the conversion of the Gentiles from
idolatrous error to godly religion. (Proof 5:29 §255)
75. Eusebius, Constantine, 16.
76. My quotations come from W. J. Ferrar’s edition of Eusebius, The Proof of the
Gospel.