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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
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Conclus. 1. The Tribes of Israel shall be converted before Jesus Christ cometh to raise the dead, and to judge the world, Mal. 4.5, 6. Behold, I will send you Elijah the Prophet before ⟨p. 102⟩the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hear•s of the children to their fathers, least I come and smite the earth with a curse. The meaning of the place may be this, that although the children of Israel for the present are in such a state of sin and enmity against God, that if their godly Ancestors should come and see them, they would be ashamed to own them for their children; yet before the coming of the great day of judgment they shall be turned to serve the God whom their fathers served. It is true, that there was a partial and typical fulfilment of this Scripture in the Ministry of John Baptist, who was a blessed instrument of converting many of the children of Israel, before that great and notable day wherein the Jewish heaven and earth was utterly dissolved (which day may be looked upon as a Type of the last and great day) nevertheless, that there is yet a (i)greater accomplishment of this prophecy to be expected, we may plainly discern from the words of our Saviour Christ, Mat. 17.11, 12. Jesus said, Elijah shall first come and restore all things, but I say unto you, that Elijah is come already: As if the Lord had said, although it be a truth that one in the spirit of Elijah must come before the great day of judgment, yet it is true, that such an one is come already, and so that prophecy in part fulfilled in the Ministry of John Baptist. But observe further, the Lord saith, that Elijah shall come in the future Tense, which how can it be meant of John Baptist, who was beheaded when our ⟨p. 103⟩Saviour thus spake to his Disciples? Moreover, the Lord saith, that Elijah at his coming shall restore all things. Did John Baptist restore all things? was the first coming of Christ the time of the restitution of all things? the Scripture saith, that it is to be at the second coming of Christ,