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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 remember a writer of their own (d)saith, That at the time when the Romans came and destroyed Jerusalem, the people were so wicked, that he doth believe (he saith) that if the Romans had not come to lay them desolate, God would have sent fire down from heaven to have consumed them, as he did Sodom and Gomorrah. But why speak I of Sodom and Gomorrah? for the wickedness of Sodom was not comparable, to the wickedness of the Jews. Nay it is not possible for any creature, no not for the Devils themselves to be guilty of a greater wickedness, than the whole Nation of the Jews was guilty of, when they rejected and crucified the Lord of life and glory. And yet for all ⟨p. 73⟩this (which is a wonderful thing) the providence of God hath so ordered, that this people doth not cease to be a Nation, no, nor ever shall do. We may therefore say, that concerning the Jewish Nation, which we cannot positively and infallibly affirm of any other particular Nation under heaven. scil. that it shall continue in being to the end of the world, Jer. 31.36. Thus saith the Lord that giveth the Ordinances of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, if these Ordinances depart from before me saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel shall cease from being a Nation before me for ever: The meaning is, that they shall never cease to be a Nation as long as the Sun and Moon endureth, as long as heaven and earth remain undissolved, as long as the frame of nature is kept from ruin: And this I take to be the genuine Interpretation of those words, Matth. 24.34. Verily I say unto you, that this Nation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled: (e)I choose rather to read the words, this Nation, than as it is in our Translation, this Generation, because the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew] properly signifieth a Nation, and is so rendered in other places, as Phil. 2.15. Be without rebuke in the midst of a perverse Nation, the Greek word is [Greek or Hebrew], the same which in the place mentioned in Matthew, is translated Generation. Besides, the scope of our