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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.
seldom hath there been any great reformation in the Church, but a sad after-clap hath come, that so that reformation might be sealed with suffering: After that Paganry was overthrown by Constantine, then came a Julian, who set it up again: And, you know that in our own Nation after that Popery was pulled down by our English Josiah (as he is usually and deservedly called) there came dark and bloody Marian days, wherein Popery had another turn like the blaze of a snuff a little before utter extinction, but when Israels salvation is consummate, the alteration will be no more for the worse, but for the better only. Now the truth of this will be evident, if you consider that those two principal things which put all the world out of order, shall then cease. For 1. One thing which puts all the world out of order is contention and division, Jam. 3.16. But when once the salvation of Israel is accomplished, the contentions and bitter strifes of men will be at an end. For the Israelites shall have unity and unanimity amongst themselves, Isa. 11.13. Jer. 32.39. Nor shall there be such schisms and divisions amongst Gentile Churches as hitherto hath been, to the infinite scandal of Christian Religion. Before Popery got up, Christians were miserably divided amongst themselves, that Pagans were wont to deride them upon their public Theatres for their divisions and contentions one with another. And, since the Reformation, what woeful and most sinful heart-burnings have there been amongst the professors of a more pure Religion. Though the Reformation in respect of purity of Doctrine hath been a Sea of glass, yet in respect ⟨p. 67⟩of contentions (as well as persecutions from adversaries) amongst themselves, it hath been mingled with fire, Rev. 15.2. But after Israels salvation there will be no more of this; For there shall be one Lord, and his name one, and that over all the earth, Zech. 14.9. one shall not say, I am a Calvinist, and another I am a Lutheran, another I am th•s, and another I am that; Such carnal schisms shall then be at an end. 2. Another thing which bringeth confusion upon the face of the world, is that desolating sin of persecution. Observe the Scripture, and you shall find, that when God hath brought desolating and astonishing plagues upon the earth, it hath been chiefly for the sin of persecution.