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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.
I took my staff Beauty and cut it asunder, that I might break my Covenant, which I had made with all the people, and it was broken in that day. Now inasmuch as they cease to be any ways of the visible Church, therefore they are externally in the same capacity with the Pagan world, and therefore under Satan's Regiment, because he is the Prince of the world, John 16.11. why are excommunicate persons said to be delivered unto Satan, but because they are Authoritatively declared to be no longer of the visible Church, (e)but of the world, and therefore in the hands of Satan, who is the worlds God and Prince? Thus may we say concerning the Church of Israel, God hath given her a Bill of divorce, God hath excommunicated her for the present: But there is a day coming, when God will receive them into favour again, and then they shall be under the powers of darkness no longer, Luke 1.71. they shall be saved from the hands of their enemies, and from the hand of all that hate them, which words although they are comprehensive of temporal, yet they are not exclusive of spiritual enemies. Besides, we read Rev. 20. That not long after the Jews conversion an Angel cometh down from heaven (i. e.) ⟨p. 97⟩Christ the Angel of the Covenant) and taketh hold of Satan, and layeth him in chains, and shuts him fast under the bars of the bottomless pit.
I took my staff Beauty and cut it asunder, that I might break my Covenant, which I had made with all the people, and it was broken in that day. Now inasmuch as they cease to be any ways of the visible Church, therefore they are externally in the same capacity with the Pagan world, and therefore under Satans Regiment, because he is the Prince of the world, Iohn 16.11. why are excommunicate persons said to be delivered unto Satan, but because they are Authoritatively declared to be no longer of the visible Church, (e)