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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. 3. During the time of the day of judgment the raised Saints of God shall be wholly freed from sin and all imperfections. It is indeed true, that before the Resurrection of Christ divers were raised from a state of death unto life, who yet were afterwards subject unto sin. Thus may we say concerning that Widows Son which was raised from death in the days of Elijah; the Jews have a tradition, that that Widows Son was ⟨p. 108⟩the Prophet Jonah, if so, to be sure he had more than a little of sin and corrupt nature in him after his Resurrection. Thus also may we conceive of Lazarus and others mentioned in the Scripture, as rising from the dead before our Saviours Resurrection. And that they were subject unto sin, is evident, because they dyed again; And that is proved, because Jesus Christ was the first born from the dead, (r)Col. 1.18. Acts 26.23. Rev. 1.5. Now, why is Christ said to be the first born from the dead? Is it not, because he is the first that had a Resurrection, even a Resurrection to a state of immortality? Though there were others that rose from the dead before Christ, yet their Resurrection was not perfect, for they dyed again, stand in need of another Resurrection unto immortality, therefore Christ is the first born from the dead. But at the last day, all the Saints shall be raised unto a sinless immortal state. And this is manifest, because the last enemy which shall be destroyed is death, 1 Cor. 15.26. But if the Saints after their Resurrection should be subject unto sin, there would be another enemy far worse than death, scil. sin to be destroyed after the abolition of death, which is expressly contrary to what the holy Apostle faith.
Conclus. 3. During the time of the day of judgment the raised Saints of God shall be wholly freed from sin and all imperfections. It is indeed true, that before the Resurrection of Christ divers were raised from a state of death unto life, who yet were afterwards subject unto sin. Thus may we say concerning that Widows Son which was raised from death in the days of Elijah; the Iews have a tradition, that that Widows Son was