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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
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2. It is evident, that the ten Tribes shall be saved as well as the two Tribes, because there is a promise of the re-union of Israel and Judah, and that they shall become one entire body. Now that could not be, if only the two Tribes should partake of this salvation. There must a time come when Ephraim shall not envy Judah, nor Judah vex Ephraim, Isa. 11.13. From the days of Jeroboam and Rehoboam, there were bitter envyings between the house of Israel and the house of Judah, which could never be healed: And at this day, there are most bitter hatreds amongst the Jews, one against another. Those Jews which are called (*)Karaim, that is to say, a Sect of Israelites which do only receive the Scriptures without the Talmud) are more odious than Christians are unto the Talmudical Jews. Now there must a time come when ⟨p. 17⟩this enmity of the Jews, both amongst themselves, & against the Israelites, shall be done away, and a glorious union be restored amongst them, as it was in David's time, or in Solomon's time, when the twelve Tribes were not divided into two distinct Kingdoms, so shall it be again. Consider Jer. 3.8, 18. Ezek. 37.16, 19. Hos. 1. last. This promise and prophecy will be fulfilled (r)when all Israel shall be saved.
2. It is evident, that the ten Tribes shall be saved as well as the two Tribes, because there is a promise of the re-union of Israel and Iudah, and that they shall become one entire body. Now that could not be, if only the two Tribes should partake of this salvation. There must a time come when Ephraim shall not envy Judah, nor Judah vex Ephraim, Isa. 11.13. From the dayes of Ieroboam and Rehoboam, there were bitter envyings between the house of Israel and the house of Iudah, which could never be healed: And at this day, there are most bitter hareds amongst the Iews, one against another. Those Iews which are called