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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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Prop. 4. It will be in a time of very great trouble when Israel shall be saved: As it is said concerning the second Temple, Dan. 9.25. that it should be built in troublous times: So it is true of Ezekiel's Temple (which the Jews are wont to call the third Temple, and tha•'s one reason why they embrace not the Christian faith (x)because they say, when Messiah cometh, he shall build the third Temple, understanding that literally, which they ought to understand only in a mystical sense, Rev. 21.22. And applying those th•ngs to the first coming of Messiah, which belong to his second coming. I say it is true of Ezekiel's Temple) that the building thereof shall be in very troublous times, though after the building is finished, there shall be the most glorious times that ever were since the ⟨p. 35⟩world began. Before Zion can be delivered, as to this last and great deliverance which my Text speaketh of, she must be in pain, and distress, and anguish▪ Isa. 26.17. Yea, the Tribes of Israel must be reduced unto an extreme hopeless, helpless estate as to man, or outward appearance before their great salvation shall break forth, Ezek. 37.11. Hos. •.15. As when Israel was redeemed out of Egypt, they were in a most forlorn, and seemingly for ever and one estate, according to that Scripture, Ezek. 16.5. (for that's the proper meaning of the place) so must it be with them again before this their great deliverance, Jer. 30.7. Alas! for that day is great, what day is that? even the day when Israel and Judah shall be returned to the Land of their Fathers, ver. 3. there is none like it, it is even the time of Jacob's trouble.