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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.
And thus much may suffice for the second thing propounded to be spoken unto in the Doctrinal discussion of that great truth which we have before us. In the third place we proceed to inquire into the Reasons of this point. Why the Tribes of Israel shall be saved? Briefly, there are such reasons as these to be assigned, why this salvation shall come to pass.
"1. Because of the free rich grace & mercy of God: This was the very reason why God took the Israelites to be his people at first in the days of old, when they, and they only were the Militant Church, Deut. 7.7, 8. And the same reason remaineth still to be given why the Lord will take them to be his people again. Why did not God cast off the Israelites sooner? certainly they deserved it long before, but because of his own infinite grace and goodness, the Lord did not of a long time reject them. So he will not cast them off for ever, for the same reason: As the justice of God is a ground of the Israelites rejection, Rom. 11.22. So his mercy is a ground of their reception into divine favour again. Hence it ⟨p. 49⟩is said, that the Lord doth this for his own sake, and not for the sake of any thing in the Israelites themselves, Ezek. 20.44. & 36.32.
"R. 2. From the stability of Gods election, 2 Tim. 2.19