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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.
1. We are to show, that the twelve Tribes shall be saved. And this is evident, if we consider, 1. That the two Tribes or Jews, 2. That the ten Tribes or Israelites (so distinguished in the days of old) shall be saved.
1. We are to shew, that the twelve Tribes shall be saved. And this is evident, if we consider, 1. That the two Tribes or Iews, 2. That the ten Tribes or Israelites (so distinguished in the dayes of old) shall be saved.
1. The two Tribes or Jews shall be saved. We ⟨p. 13⟩shall not here insist upon such arguments as some have stood upon. Austin layeth weight upon a typical argument, sc. That as the Gileadites rejected Jephthah, but afterwards they returned to him again; so the Jews should reject Christ, but afterwards they should embrace him. And others (o)there are who lay much weight upon an argument drawn from the secret wonderful providence of God in preserving the Jewish Nation entire from mixtures with other Nations where they are dispersed. The providence of God hath suffered (p)other Nations to have their blood mixed very much: As you know it is with our own Nation, there is a mixture of British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman blood; but as for the body of the Jewish Nation, it is far otherwise. Let an English family live in Spain five or six hundred years successively, and they will become Spaniards; but though a Jewish family live in Spain a thousand years, they do not degenerate into Spaniards, (for the most part.) It is true, that a Genealogical distinction amongst the Jews is now perished, because the Messiah being come, there is not now (though before that there was) any need of such distinction, yet a National distinction there still remaineth; whence some conclude, that there will be in due time a National conversion of that people. But albeit, this argument is not to be slighted; yet I choose rather to build upon plain Scripture-proof. Consider then,