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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.
Now when it is said that neither the sword of a mighty man, nor of a mean man shall devour him, the meaning is, that this Assyrian shall be destroyed, not by any humane sword at all, but by the glittering sword which the Lord doth whet in heaven. Moreover we are to know that after the twelve Tribes shall be returned into the Land of their Fathers (f)then will Gog and Magog come up against them, with a most formidable army, thinking with great fury to destroy the Israelites, by reason whereof they shall be in ⟨p. 80⟩marvellous distress, but out of this distress will God deliver them, by miraculous judgments out of heaven upon their adversaries, Ezek. 38.21, 22. I will call for a sword against him (saith the Lord God) I will plead against him with pestilence, and with blood, and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain and great hail-stones, fire and brimstone. Consider also Rev. 20.9. which words, though they are not the same (for Ezekiels Gog and Magog cometh only out of the North quarters, whereas John's Gog and Magog cometh out of all quarters of the earth) yet they are an allusion to that place in Ezekiel. Thus you see that this salvation of the Twelve Tribes of Israel will be like that deliverance out of Egypt; yea, we may truly affirm, that it will be a greater salvation, than that out of Egypt was: And for this also the Scripture is express, Jer. 23.7, 8. Behold the days come saith the Lord, that they shall no mone say, the Lord liveth which brought up the Children of Israel out of Egypt, but the Lord liveth which brought up, and which led the house of Israel out of the North Country, and from all the Countries whither I had driven them, and they shall dwell in their own Land: And this is manifest, 1. Because the Israelites are more scattered now than when they were in Egypt, even into all Countries are they driven, as it is there said: Now they are become like a Lamb in a large pasture, as the Lord threatened them it should be, Hos. 4.16. i. e. here a ew, and there a Jew, scattered up and down the world. Now to save a dispersed Nation, a scattered Nation;