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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.
Quest. But when will this salvation of Israel be accomplished.
Answ. That is the second thing to be spoken unto in the prosecution of this point. And in the first place, let me premise this distinction; That the salvation of Israel, (I speak of a salvation upon Earth) may be looked upon either as inchoate, or consummate. The inchoate salvation of Israel, I take to be at the conversion of the Tribes unto Christ, and their repossession of the land of their fathers. The consummate salvation of Israel, I take to be that glorious condition which they shall be in after the destruction of Ezekiel's Gog and Magog, when the Kingdom shall become the Lords all the world over, and his Saints shall reign upon earth: Now whatever you shall hereafter hear, I desire you would receive as with this distinction, otherwise there will seem to be a repugnancy in things which are indeed very consentaneous amongst themselves. Having then premised this distinction, let us proceed in the fear of God, to enquire, when Israel shall be saved. I might detain you about the computation of Prophetical and Apocalyptical times, but that would be less profitable for you, because, at last, you would be left at uncertainties; therefore we shall not insist there: But what I have to say in answer to this enquiry, may be laid down in sundry Pr•positions, which we shall (by the help of Christ) endeavour to clear unto you, from the Scriptures of Truth.
Answ. That is the second thing to be spoken unto in the prosecution of this point. And in the first place, let me premise this distinction; That the salva•ion of Israel, (I speak of a salvation upon Earth) may be looked upon either as inchoat, or consummate. The inchoat salvation of Israel, I take to be at the conversion of the Tribes unto Christ, and their repossession of the land of their fathers. The consummate salvation of Israel, I take to be that glorious condition which they shall be in after the destruction of Ezekiel's Gog and Magog, when the Kingdom shall become the Lords all the world over, and his Saints shall reign upon earth: Now whatever you shall hereafter hear, I desire you would receive as with this distinction, otherwise there will seem to be a repugnancy in things which are indeed very consentaneous amongst themselves. Having then premised this distinction, let us proceed in the fear of God, to enquire, when Israel shall be saved. I might detain you about the computation of Prophetical and Apocalyptical times, but that would be less profitable for you, because, at last, you would be left at uncertainties; therefore we shall not insist there: But what I have to say in answer to this enquiry, may be laid down in sundry Prpositions, which we shall (by the help of Christ) endeavour to clear unto you, from the Scriptures of Truth.