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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. The Turk must likewise be destroyed before all Israel be saved. For that Eastern Anti-Christ (as some are wont to call him) having the Land of Israel in his possession we may be sure they shall never peaceably enjoy the Land of their Fathers again, as long as he hath any power to hinder it; therefore judicious Interpreters (e)have expounded that Text, Isa. 27.1. to be a Prophecy of the destruction of the ⟨p. 26⟩present Turkish power, and that this shall be before the salvation of the Tribes of Israel be accomplished, is very manifest from divers Scriptures, unto those that understand the meaning of the spirit in them: We shall endeavour by the Lords help to open two or three Scriptures that do hold forth the light of this truth unto us. One Scripture which saith as much as this cometh to, is that Dan. 11.44, 45. Tidings out of the East, and out of the North shall trouble him, therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly make away many: and he shall plant the Tabernacle of his Palace between the Seas, in the glorious holy Mountain, yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. Now for the right understanding of this Scripture, we must remember that the scope of the 11. Chapter of Daniel, is to show what should befall the Jews under the Persian, Grecian, and Roman Monarchy. (f)This Roman Monarchy beginneth to be described in verse 36. and therefore the words which are translated, And the King shall do according to his will (which hath occasioned many to Interpret the Text of Antiochus) may be read: For ⟨p. 27⟩(g)a King shall do according to his will: And if the words were so translated, the transition from the Grecian unto the Roman Kingdom would be much more evident: Moreover the Apostle Paul doth interpret the words, as describing (†)