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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.
The hour now is that the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, which (although it is true, that some which were corporally dead were not long after [that hour] Christ spake those words, quickened by the Son of God, yet it is true that the place) may be understood of a spiritual sinful death, Eph. 2.1, 5. You hath he quickened who were dead: How dead? In respect of Trespass: and sins, so Col. 2.13. Now thus may we say concerning the Jews at this day, they remain in a state of sin, and therefore in a state of death: And how should it be otherwise, as long as they reject him that is the way, the truth, and the life? To live, and yet to reject him that is eternal life, is not possible. Well did the Lord Jesus say to them, John 8.24. Except you believe that I am he, you shall die in your sins. Now the wretched Jews will not believe that Jesus Christ is he, that Jesus Christ is the true Messiah, the Saviour of the world, therefore they live, they die in sin: so then their salvation will be wonderful. For any one soul to be brought out of the grave of ⟨p. 85⟩sin, is wonderful, no less a wonder, than for a body that hath been rotting in the belly of the earth to be brought out alive from thence: But what a miracle then will it be when a whole Nation shall be brought out of a grave of sin? who can choose but wonder at the thought of it?
The hour now is that the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, which (although it is true, that some which were corporally dead were not long after [that hour] Christ spake those words, quickned by the Son of God, yet it is true that the place) may be understood of a spiritual sinful death, Eph. 2.1, 5. You hath he quickned who were dead: How dead? In respect of Trespasse: and sins, so Col. 2.13. Now thus may we say concerning the Iews at this day, they remain in a state of sin, and therefore in a state of death: And how should it be otherwise, as long as they reect him that is the way, the truth, and the life? To live, and yet to reject him that is eternal life, is not possible. Well did the Lord Jesus say to them,