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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.
T•ere is an internal veil upon the minds and hearts of the Jews, that is to say, blindness and hardness which is upon them; they are under a strange and stupid error of conscience, whence they think, they do well to adhere unto the Mosaical dispensations, and to oppose Christ and his Gospel; And they are under ⟨p. 93⟩perverseness and obstinacy of will, whence they shut their eyes against the light, and grow blind against the Sun, that they neither do nor will believe, when conviction is held out before them, they will not come to Christ, that they might have light and life, he hath stretched forth his hands all the day long unto a gainsaying & a rebellious people, he would have gathered them under his wings many a time and often, but they would not be gathered by him; This is a dark and dreadful veil upon the heart of that Nation, but they shall be saved from it, therefore verse 16. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. In a word, all sin is a spiritual enemy, such an enemy as would destroy a mans spirit, as would (that I may so speak) suck the blood of a mans soul; therefore the Apostle exhorts to beware of sin, because it wars against the soul. Now the Jews remaining in unbelief, are under the power of this enemy, John 8.34. Verily, verily I say unto you, he that commits sin, is a servant of sin: Certainly the Jews commit sin when they reject the counsel of God against themselves, when they go on contradicting and blaspheming the Son of God, when they put away the word of life from them, therefore they are in woeful servitude unto sin. But the day will come when they shall be freed from this bondage, for they shall at last own and embrace the Lord Jesus Christ. In the latter days ('tis said) they shall seek the Lord, and David their King: And by that means they will be freed from sin, verse 36. If the Son make you free, then you shall be free indeed: Therefore when they shall once believe on the Son of God, they shall indeed be made free from sin, so 2 Cor. 3.17. Now the Lord is that spirit, and where the ⟨p. 94⟩spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty; the Lord, i. e.