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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.
Prop. 5. There is reason to hope that the salvation of the Tribes of Israel is near to be revealed. Indeed to determine justly how nigh the conversion of the Jews is; for my own part, I look upon it, as presumptuous and unwarrantable, for the reasons before mentioned. Only in general, that the time is near, we may safely conclude. Q. But what reason is there for such a conclusion? Answ. 1. Because the Scripture saith that this work must be brought to pass in the last days, Numb. 24.14. Hos. 3. last. Jer. 30.24. In the latter days you shall consider it, h. e. when the latter days are come, then you shall understand the truth of this Prophecy, that your enemies shall be destroyed, and your selves saved. And indeed it will be in the latter part of the last days, when this salvation shall begin; for the Jews shall be converted, when Antichrist is near ⟨p. 38⟩unto his total ruin. Now that the latter part of these last days are accomplished in some measure is evident, if we consider the characters of the last times laid down by the Apostle, 2 Tim. 3. begin. It would be too long to insist upon all the character• of the last time, which the Apostle there doth mention. Only let us take notice of three or four o• them, and then judge if we are not fallen into those times 1. Men shall be covetous, that's one character of the last times; if we see men laying up a world of money, and unjust gain, procured by usury, by bribery, by selling Offices, and the like unrighteous practices, it giveth us sad occasion to think of this word. 2. Unthankful; when the best friends in the world are forgotten, and those that have been instruments of great deliverances, are requited evil for all their love; such ingratitude is a character of the last times. 3. Truce-breakers, when there are those that will promise any thing to serve their own ends, but never do as they have promised. And when the most Solemn Covenants, not only with men, but with God are made nothing of; this is what the word hath fore-told shall come to pass in the last times, 4. Traitors i. e. such as shall betray the Saints of God; for that is the Scripture notion of a Traitor, one that is false and perfidious to an interest of Jesus Christ.