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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.
Again, Anno 1130 (w)there arose in Persia one David ell David, who had the confidence to go to the King of Persia himself and to tell him, that he was the Messiah; This David ell David used Magical incantations, and by his lying wonders caused great amazement to be in the world, and also procured a marvellous multitude of deluded Israelites to follow him, till at last both he and they were destroyed. Many (†)other instances I could give you here, but I forbear. These are enough to confirm the truth of that which our blessed Saviour saith, Matth. 24.24. There shall arise false Christs, ⟨p. 89⟩and false Prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, inasmuch as if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Truly it hath been so, many a false Christ hath risen amongst the Jews, who, by signs and lying wonders, hath seduced many. Therefore when the Children of Israel shall indeed be delivered out of their misery, it will be so much the more wonderful, because they have met with so many, and so doleful disappointments heretofore. 2. The Jews have attempted to deliver themselves out of their misery by blind and legal humiliations. For An. 1502. it was (y)generally agreed upon by the Jews throughout all Europe, that they would spend a whole year in prayer, and fasting, and penance, as far as their bodies were able to bear, and they did so, Men, Women, and Children, and yet they had no deliverance. Indeed it is true, that God doth sometimes bestow outward deliverances upon men, because of legal humiliations, so it was with Judah in Rehoboam's time, and with Israel in Ahab's time: And there is some reason to believe that the Jews, many of them, will be repossessed of their own Land again before such time as they have any general Evangelical repentance. And thus some interpret that place, Jer. 31.19. After Ephraim was turned, he repented; namely, that after the Israelites shall be returned to their own Land again, the spirit of repentance shall be poured forth upon them. Consider