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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.
I know there have been many foolish dreams about the renewal of the universe, the Platonical year, &c. but doubtless the finger of Satan hath been deep therein, that so the glory of these truths might be unknown. I say then, it is an holy truth, that after the salvation of Israel is consummate, the state and face of things will be quite altered through the world. Hence it is said, Rev. 21.1. That when New Jerusalem cometh down from heaven, there shall be no more Sea: i. e. either ⟨p. 65⟩there shall be no more corruptions in Religion, or (which interpretation suiteth with the Prophetical notion of Sea) the meaning is, that there will be no more such troubles and combustions, motions and commotions, dreadful shakings and confusions, as shall be in the world a little before the Jews conversion; but all things shall be quiet, and and calm, and peaceable, and days of glorious tranquility throughout the earth. Hence it is said in the same verse, that there shall be a new heaven, and a new earth: i. e. a new state and face of the world. As this present state of the world is called a new world in respect of that which was before the flood, which is termed the old world, so the state of things after the consummation of Israels salvation, may in respect of this present state of the world be termed, a new world; for the world will then as far excel (and more) what the world now is, as the world at present doth come short of what it was before the flood. Hence the Apostle Peter saith, 2 Ep. chap. 3. ver. 13. we, according to his promise, expect a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. This cannot be meant merely of the new Gospel-dispensation, because that was already come, whereas the Apostle speaketh of this as future, as a thing under expectation, and not under present fruition: Nor can it be meant of the state of glory in heaven, because the Apostle saith, according to his promise, which promise is in Isa. 65.17. and that speaketh expressly concerning a state here upon earth. Consider verse 21. Therefore the creation of the new heaven and earth, noteth a glorious renewal of this inferior world; and therefore it is said, Rev. 21.5. Behold I make all things new: Now ⟨p. 66⟩