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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. That large measure of the spirit of grace which God hath given to some of his people, is a comfortable ground of hope that Israels salvation is not far off: As when salvation is near to come, men ought to be very holy, Isa. 56.1. So the Saints of God are wont to be so. When the Lord intends to bestow eminent mercy upon his people, he useth to prepare them for it, by pouring abundantly of his Spirit upon them, Luke 1.17. Now the conversion of the Jews will be an eminent mercy unto Gentile Churches, Rom. 11.15. Therefore before that day, the Lord will refine his people. And hath he not done so? why have the Churches of Christ been put into the furnace of late? Surely it is that they might come forth, as gold cometh out of the fire. Great tribulation is upon the Saints in other places of the world, that so they might come forth with their garments washed in the blood of the Lamb. And doubtless, as the Lord God is hardening the wicked for the day of destruction; so he is sanctifying his people, and fitting them for a day of great salvation, by the present judgments, persecutions, and general calamities which are come, and coming upon the world.
2. That large measure of the spirit of grace which God hath given to some of his people, is a comfortable ground of hope that Israels salvation is not far off: As when salvation is near to come, men ought to be very holy, Isa. 56.1. So the Saints of God are wont to be so. When the Lord intends to bestow eminent mercy upon his people, he useth to prepare them for it, by pouring abundantly of his Spirit upon them, Luke 1.17. Now the conversion of the Iews will be an eminent mercy unto Gentile Churches, Rom. 11.15. Therefore before that day, the Lord will refine his people. And hath he not done so? why have the Churches of Christ been put into the furnace of late? Surely it is that they might come forth, as gold cometh out of the fire. Great tribulation is upon the Saints in other places of the world, that so they might come forth with their garments washed in the bloud of the Lamb. And doubtless, as the Lord God is hardning the wicked for the day of destruction; so he is sanctifying his people, and fitting them for a day of great salvation, by the present judgments, persecutions, and general calamities which are come, and coming upon the world.