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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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5. This salvation of Israel will be glorious inasmuch as the Lord Jesus Christ shall then possess his Davidical kingdom. If we search the Scriptures, we shall find that there is a threefold kingdom of Christ. 1. Providential, whereby he governeth the world, in respect whereof he is called the King of Nations, Jer. 10.7. See Matth. 28.18. ⟨p. 60⟩John 5.27. 2. Spiritual, in respect whereof he is styled the King of Saints, Rev. 15.3. and this is either. 1. Internal in the souls, hearts and consciences of men, and is very fitly termed the kingdom of grace, Col. 1.13. Rom. 14.17. or 2. External, i. e. Ecclesiastical, under this consideration cometh the kingdom of Ordinances. Christ, as King and Head of his Church, hath appoi•••d a Government and Ordinances therein. Thus it is said, Acts 1.3. that the Lord after he was risen, appearing to his Disciples, spake to them of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God, part of the meaning of which Scripture may well be, That (a)Christ did then instruct his Disciples concerning the Order and Government of his Church, what Officers, what Seals, what Censures, &c. he would have observed therein: But besides these, there is 3. (†)Christs Davidical kingdom: Of this we read Luke 1.32, 33. the Lord God will give him the Throne of his father David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end: compare the place, and consider it with