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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.
But 2. By Euphrates may be meant the Turkish Empire: There are (u)especially two reasons which do constrain me to close with that interpretation (not excluding the former.) One is because I find that in another place in the Book of the Revelation, the Turkish power is signified by Euphrates, Rev. 9.13, 14. I heard a voice saying, loose the four Angels which are bound in the great River Euphrates. The meaning of the place may be, That the Turks which lay on both sides the River Euphrates, and were divided into four Sultanies or Kingdoms should be let loose, partly by composing their civil dissentions, and partly by being united under one Ottomanical head, to make a dreadful irruption upon the Roman Empire. Again, Euphrates is used in the Old Testament, as being significative of the Assyrian Empire, Isa. 8.7. The Lord bringeth upon them the waters of the River, (w)i. e. Euphrates, which, by way of eminency, is called the River. See 1 Kings 4.21. Psal. 72.8. & 80.11. even the King of Assyria: So that you see the King of Assyria is expressed by Euphrates. Therefore the Turk being the Assyrian of the world at this day, ⟨p. 34⟩may well be expressed by the same term. So then the sum of all is, that when it is said that Euphrates must be dried up, that the way of the Kings of the East may be prepare: It noteth, that divine providence will by some means or other, bring a fatal destruction upon the Turkish Empire, in order to making the way clear for Israels salvation. In a word, (and so I pass off from this proposition;) Rome shall be destroyed before the conversion of the Jews: and as for the Pope and Turk, they shall be utterly destroyed after the Jews conversion, yet before or together with the consummate salvation of the Tribes of Israel. The utter destruction of all Antichristian power is in order of nature before, but in time it doth synchronize with the consummate salvation of Israel.