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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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5. It is evident, that this salvation of Israel will be wonderful, if we consider the state from which they shall be saved, scil. from a state of death. I find that some of the (h)Jewish Rabbis have an opinion, that their restoration and the resurrection from the dead shall be contemporary. ⟨p. 82⟩Whether there will not be a particular resurrection soon after the Jews conversion, is a controversy that I intend not here to meddle with, only it is certain, that the ultimate, universal resurrection from the dead will not be till long after that. Nevertheless it is true, that the salvation of Israel is described by expressions taken from the resurrection of the last day, to signify unto us that it will be such another wonderful work of God as that is. What more wonderful than that the bodies of men which have been dead and rotting in their graves for ages, after-ages, should be raised, and brought to life again? This is a mighty wonder: even so that the Jewish Nation, which have been perishing in a cruel grave, and there lain dead for many hundreds of years, to be made alive again, to say the least of it, it is a wonder. See the Scripture here a little, Ezek. 37.12, 13. Thus saith the Lord God behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and a•d cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the Land of Israel, and ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves. Mark how the Lord insists upon this, out of your graves, out of your graves, out of your graves, out of your graves; not less than four times in two verses is it spoken. See also Isa. 26.19. Thy dead shall live •y dead body, they shall arise: For so I c•use to read the words, our version of them seemeth to me to darken the sense. There are variety of interpretations of the place, which I shall not trouble you with.
5. It is evident, that this salvation of Israel will be wonderful, if we consider the state from which they shall be saved, scil. from a state of death. I find that some of the