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The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applied: or, A discourse concerning the general…The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applyed: or, A discourse concerning the general…
The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applied: or, A discourse concerning the general conversion of the Israelitish nation. Wherein is showed, 1. That the Twelve Tribes shall be saved. 2. When this is to be expected. 3. Why this must be. 4. What kind of salvation the Tribes of Israel shall partake of (viz.) a glorious, wonderful, spiritual, temporal salvation. : Being the substance of several sermons preached / by Increase Mather, M.A. teacher of a church in Boston in New England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applyed: or, A discourse concerning the general conversion of the Israelitish nation. Wherein is shewed, 1. That the Twelve Tribes shall be saved. 2. When this is to be expected. 3. Why this must be. 4. What kind of salvetion the Tribes of Israel shall partake of (viz.) a glorious, wonderful, spiritual, temporal salvation. : Being the substance of several sermons preached / by Increase Mather, M.A. teacher of a church in Boston in New England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
London: printed for John Allen, 1669
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
AN EPISTLE TO THE READER.
Christian Reader!
How happy would be the condition of Gods people in this world? How sweet and amiable would their conversing together be? How honourable to God and Christ, and to the Gospel of Truth and Peace in the sight of all? if their love to every Divine truth, and mutually among themselves, in the truth, and for the truths sake, did so shine forth, that it might be said of them, as it was observed and said in former times by Heathen Persecutors; See how these Christians love one another? This is the real character of Christs Disciples, and a proper effect of that purity of heart, which proceeds from effectual faith in Jesus Christ; therefore the Apostle Peter saith in, 1 Pet. 1.22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the Brethren: See that ye love one another with a pure ⟨image ?⟩heart fervently. But here is one maim and misery, that, as our knowledge of the truth is imperfect, •o our love to it, and one to another is imperfect; though the way of love […] a more excellent way, as the Apostle argueth,