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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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Hence come overturnings, overturnings, overturnings, hence come Wars, Plagues, Famines, Fires, and eternal desolations. What was that sin which ruined the four Monarchies? It was the sin of persecution. See Jer. 50.17, 18. Rev. 6.9, 12, 13, 14. And what was that sin which brought like a whirlwind of the Lord, destruction upon the Jewish state and Nation, and that long, and lasting, and most doleful ruin which continues to this day? It was because they persecuted his Saints, and stopped […] mouths of his messengers, 1 Thes. 2. […], 16. But after Israels salvation is consummate, […] more persecution shall be heard of in the world, no not for a thousand years together. Nay, the Saints shall never more be delivered into the hands of persecutors after this glorious day, Ezek. 28.24. & 45.8. The Jews of old were not to have any fire upon the Sabbath day, which might signify unto us, that, in that glorious Sabbatism, that rest for the people of God, which shall one day be upon this earth, there will be freedom ⟨p. 68⟩from fires of contention and persecution▪ And this is manifest 1. Because persecution is from the Devil. It is he that stirreth up wicked instruments to molest the Servants of God for Righteousness sake, Rev. 2.10. 1 Thes. 2.18. Now Satan must be bound for a thousand years, Rev. 20.1, 2, 3. "2. Because persecution is from Antichrist. The Devil and the Pope are the two great Authors of persecution. Look into the world, and you shall find, that where Saints are persecuted (i. e.) suffer for Righteousness) it is caused by Antichrist, or some Limb or Horn of Antichrist: But Antichrist shall be utterly destroyed (as hath been showed) when the salvation of Israel shall be consummate. Therefore when the beast shall be slain, and his body given unto the burning flame, there will be no more destruction in all the Lords holy mountain.