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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.
2. The work shall then be carried on irresistibly.
2. The work shall then be carryed on irresistibly.
Heretofore there have been attempts (as hereafter may be said more abundantly) towards the salvation of Israel which have all ended in miserable disappointments: But when the appointed time is come (though stops & seeming-retrograde motions there may be sometimes, that is a usual method of divine providence) it shall be carried on successfully at last. The Lord will pluck up the mountains by the roots when they stand in his way, Zech. 4.7. No enemies shall be able to stand before the saved ⟨p. 48⟩Tribes of Israel, Numb. 24.8. Zech. 9.13. For the Lord from heaven will fight for them: As when the Jewish state was destroyed by the Romans, the Lord did fight against them. And therefore Titus refused to be crowned for that victory (g)for (said he) If their God had not fought against them, I could never have overcome them: So when the Lord shall in mercy return them to the Land of their fathers again, he will fight for them, Rev. 16.14. Hos. 1.7. Zech. 9.14.
Heretofore there have been attempts (as hereafter may be said more abundantly) towards the salvation of Israel which have all ended in miserable disappointments: But when the appointed time is come (though stops & seeming-retrograde motions there may be somtimes, that is a usual method of divine providence) it shall be carryed on successfully at last. The Lord will pluck up the mountains by the roots when they stand in his way,