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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 Satan is a spiritual adversary, he is called by the name of an evil spirit, and the Devils are said to be spiritual wickednesses in high places, he thirsteth after the blood of souls, he goeth up and down like a roaring Lyon, seeking to make a prey of the immortal spirits of men. Now, alas, the unconverted Jews are under the power of this spiritual adversary, 2 Cor. 4.4. The God of this world hath blinded the eyes of them that believe not. Eph. 2.2. The Prince of the power of the air worketh in the hearts of the Children of disobedience: or, as the word is, (c)the children of unpersuadableness. Now the Jews have hitherto been ⟨p. 95⟩children of unpersuadableness, so that it is an easier matter to convert any one unto Christ, than to convert a Jew. (†)Nay when thy are convinced that Christ is come, yet they deny it: And hence it hath come to pass, that seldom any considerable number of Jews hath been converted, except by miracle, as it was in the day of the Apostate (d)Julian. Julian out of the horrid and hellish despite of his heart against Christ, bad the Jews go and re-edify the Temple, they accordingly laid the foundation, but behold in a night God sent a terrible Earth-quake, that overthrew all that they had done, that not a stone was left upon a stone, and the tools which the Jews wrought with (as the story saith) were consumed by fire from heaven, by reason of which miraculous providence, many Jews were converted to Christ: But without some such miracle as this, it hath scarcely hitherto been known, that any considerable number of them hath been converted, therefore they are children of unpersuadableness, and therefore under the power of Satan. Besides it is evident that they are so, because they have long, and long ago, ceased from being the Church and people of God. Therefore Rom. 11.11. we read of their fall, that is to say, their falling from that relation which once they stood in towards God, and of their casting away, verse 15. and