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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.
As of old in the days of the first Temple, Hell was called (e)the place of Giants (Prov. 21.16.) from that fearful destruction which came upon the old world, and called Tophet and Gehenna from the slaughter of the Assyrians, by the Angel in the valley of the Son of Hinnom, so Hell is called a lake of fire and brimstone in allusion to Sodoms destruction. Sure then the meaning of the place is not, that ever Sodom shall be restored again; Is it then that the Jews shall never be converted? No, for that is contrary to more than a thousand Scriptures: But by Sodom, the Gentiles may be signified, and by Samaria the ten Tribes; so that the meaning may be, that when the Lord will have mercy on the Jews, he will also have mercy on the Gentiles, and on the ten Tribes. Therefore Ezekiel and Paul do very well agree; for Paul saith, that when all Israel is saved, a fullness of the Gentiles shall come in; And Ezekiel saith, that when Sodom shall be brought out of the captivity of Satan and powers of darkness, then shall the Jews have an happy and glorious day. Gentile Nations will be so affected with the power of God appearing in the conversion and restitution of the Jews, as that they will thereupon become the Lords people, Jer. 16.19. And how glorious will this be? if the conversion of one soul causeth joy in heaven, Luke 15.7, 24. certainly it will be a glorious day when so many thousands and thousands of souls; yea, ⟨p. 64⟩whole Nations of men shall be converted to God by Jesus Christ.
As of old in the days of the first Temple, Hell was called (e)the place of Giants (Prov. 21.16.) from that fearful destruction which came upon the old world, and called Tophet and Gehenna from the slaughter of the Assyrians, by the Angel in the valley of the Son of Hinnom, so Hell is called a lake of fire and brimstone in allusion to Sodoms destruction. Sure then the meaning of the place is not, that ever Sodom shall be restored again; Is it then that the Iews shall never be converted? No, for that is contrary to more than a thousand Scriptures: But by Sodom, the Gentiles may be signified, and by Samaria the ten Tribes; so that the meaning may be, that when the Lord will have mercy on the Iews, he will also have mercy on the Gentiles, and on the ten Tribes. Therefore Ezekiel and Paul do very well agree; for Paul saith, that when all Israel is saved, a fulness of the Gentiles shall come in; And Ezekiel saith, that when Sodom shall be brought out of the captivity of Satan and powers of darkness, then shall the Iews have an happy and glorious day. Gentile Nations will be so affected with the power of God appearing in the conversion and restitution of the Iews, as that they will thereupon become the Lords people,