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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. 2. From the time of the Jews conversion, even till the day of judgment, they will not be in a sinless perfect estate. Albeit 'tis true that there shall be an eminency of gifts and grace among them, yet it is a vain thing to dream of a state of perfection upon earth before the last day. Hence we read of steps or stairs in Ezekiels Temple, Ezek. 40.22, 26, 31, 34, 37. What is the meaning of that? but, that after Ezekiels Temple shall be begun, there will be a gradual going on towards perfection, they shall go from step to step, appearing before God in Zion, they shall go on from one degree of grace to another. Therefore there will not be an absolute freedom from sin. Besides the thing is marvellous clear if we duly consider what is said, Jer. 31.29, 30. In those days, (i. e. in those days when all the Tribes of Israel shall be saved) they shall say no more, the fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set an edge, but every one shall die for his own iniquity, every man that eateth a sour grape, his teeth shall be set an edge. The meaning of the place may be this. (p)The Israelites, or ten Tribes, they complained that misery lay upon them because of the sin of Jeroboam; the Jews or two Tribes, they complained that they suffered for the sin of Manasseh. Now saith God, the time will come, when by reason of the grace of my new and everlasting Covenant, you shall not suffer any thing for the iniquity of your Idolatrous fore-fathers, only then for your own personal transgressions, you shall die. Now then, how can it be, that after the Israelites are brought under the new Covenant dispensations, every one that sinneth shall die for his own iniquity ⟨p. 107⟩in case there should then be no more sinning? In a word, after the Jews conversion, the soul that […] shall die, as we have it, Ezek. 18.4. Therefore after the Jews conversion there will be sinning.
Conclus. 2. From the time of the Iews conversion, even till the day of judgment, they will not be in a sinless perfect estate. Albeit 'tis true that there shall be an eminency of gifts and grace among them, yet it is a vain thing to dream of a state of perfection upon earth before the last day. Hence we read of steps or stairs in Ezekiels Temple,