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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.
Secondly, the salvation of all the Tribes of Israel will be wonderful as well as glorious. And although it be true that what hath been said concerning the glory of this day, doth sufficiently evince that it will be a wonderful day, nevertheless because I would not multiply too many particulars under one general head, therefore for methods sake, I choose to mention this, as a distinct head from the former. And the truth of this is further evident; 1. Because the Scripture doth plainly express as much as this cometh to. scil. that the day of Israels salvation will be a wonderful day, Joel 2.26. You shall praise the name of the Lord your God that hath dealt wondrously with you, and verse 30. I will show ⟨p. 69⟩wonders saith God, speaking concerning this very time of Israels conversion and salvation. Hence that day is called a great day, because God will then do great and wonderful things, such as the like shall not be again, Hos. 1. last, great shall be the day of Jezreel: By the day of Jezreel, is meant especially the day when the twelve Tribes of Israel shall be saved. Now this is said to be a great day, because then God will take unto himself his great power, and show the greatness of his being, and holy Attributes, in working great deliverances, and in destroying great enemies, and so as to cause great admiration in the world. And hence also this salvation of Israel is called a Mystery, as in the verse before my Text, I show you (saith the Apostle) a Mystery, that blindness is in part happened to Israel, till the fullness of the Gentiles be come in, and so all Israel shall be saved. So that the mystery which the Apostle speaketh of is not only (as some have restrained the words) that blindness is happened to Israel; Albeit that is indeed a very mysterious thing, that they, which were once the people, and the only people of God, should be rejected by him for so long a time, well might the Apostle, even in that respect break forth into such an holy ecstasy and admiration, saying, O the depth both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how are his judgments unsearchable, and his ways past finding out? but that's not all the mystery; It is likewise a wonderful mystery, that this blindness, which is happened to Israel, should only be a partial, and not an eternal blindness, that this blindness should last no longer than till the Gentiles have fulfilled their time;