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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.
Pro•os. 1. An infallible demonstration of the exact time when Israel shall be saved, cannot be given. The Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 13, 9. That we Prophesy but in part; to be sure▪ it is true concerning the particular time, when Prophetical Mysteries shall be fulfilled, that therein our knowledge ⟨p. 19⟩is imperfect. After men have said all that they can say about this matter, all is but an humane conjecture, and not an infallible divine conclusion; as to the day, or Month, or year, when this salvation shall have its effect. Hence even the Jews themselves have a saying,(w) That the time when the fifth Monarchy shall begin, is kept secret. An infallible demonstration of the exact time when Rome shall be destroyed can not be assigned, as is evident, because, if a man would form an argument, to make a demonstration of the time when that shall be one part of the argument, will be grounded upon humane testimony, sc. upon Chronology, and therefore the conclusion must needs be humane, and not divine. For it i• (x)a rule in reason, that the conclusion doth always follow the pars debilior in any argument; if therefore either part of the argument be humane, then the conclusion issuing there-from must needs be humane also; and yet it is an easier thing to be demonstrative, as to the particular time when Anti-Christ shall be ruined, than to assign infallibly the particular time when the Jews shall be converted, for the year of Anti-Christs downfall is noted in the Scripture (did we but know when to begin the account) scil. That it must be 1260. years after his first rise and reign; but I cannot, for my own part by searching find out, that the particular year when the Jews shall be converted, is any where in all the Scripture once mentioned. I ⟨p. 20⟩know many are wont to allege that place, Dan. 12.11. to prove that the Jews shall be converted at such or such a time: But truly, I do believe that those 1290. days which Daniel there speaketh of are past and gone long ago;