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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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And that then all Israel should be saved: This is the wonder of wonders. As the conversion of ⟨p. 70⟩the Gentiles was a mystery made known unto the Jews, Eph. 3.9. So the conversion of the Jews is a mystery made known unto the Gentiles; yea, it is a most excellent admirable mystery; therefore it is called the mystery of God, Rev. 10.7. When the seventh Angel shall sound the Trumpet, the mystery of God shall be fulfilled: The mystery of God in that place may note the reversion of the Children of Israel unto the Land of their Fathers, and their conversion, together with the restoration of all things to their first glory. Now, why is it called, the mystery of God? Is not this one reason of it, to signify unto us the divineness, and admirable excellency of the mystery? It's an usual Hebraism in the Scripture to express a thing that is superlatively excellent and admirable by the name of God. Thus we read of harps of God, and mountains of God, and Cedars of God: i. e. very excellent ones, so the mystery of God, i. e. a most excellent mystery. And therefore this salvation will be wonderful. For a mystery is as much as to say, (a)a divine wonderful secret, such a wonderful secret, that the knowledge thereof would not be had amongst the sons of men, were it not for divine extraordinary revelation of the spirit: Therefore the Incarnation of the Son of God is called a mystery, 1 Tim. 3.16. because i• is a thing unknown to nature: men that have nothing but the Law of Nature, never thought of such a thing: And for the same reason the Resurrection of the body is called ⟨p. 71⟩a mystery, 1 Cor. 15.51. Behold (saith the Apostle, speaking concerning the Resurrection of the body) I show you a mystery: And why a mystery, but because it is such a wonderful secret, that, had it not been for divine Revelation, men had been wholly ignorant thereof. I know some