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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.
And in this sense only it is true, that there will a time come (according to those blessed Petitions in that pattern of prayer, commonly called the Lords prayer) (s)when in the kingdom of God his will shall be done on earth, even as it is done in heaven, Matth. 6.10. I say I doubt not to affirm to you, that there will be such a day, when the Saints upon earth shall do the will of God with as much perfection as it is now done by the Angels of heaven. But stay a while, look not for that day till the Resurrection of the just, and then you shall see it. So that it is a great & a precious truth, that there will be a day when the Saints of God shall even upon earth be for a long time in a sinless glorious estate. For the day of judgment will be upon earth; For where should men be judged, but in the place where they have lived, either to the honour or to the dishonour of the great God and Judge of all the earth? Therefore Job speaks, as you find chap. 19. verse 25.26. I know (saith he) that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day, (i. e. the day of Judgment) upon the earth, and that in my flesh I shall see God, so Zech. 14.4. It is said, his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives. And as it is true, that the judgment will be upon the earth, so likewise it shall be a day of long continuance. Can a world of men, even all that have been alive from Adam, to the last man that ever shall be born ⟨p. 110⟩into the world; I say, can all those millions of millions of men and women that have been, are, or ever shall be upon the earth, be called to a particular account for all the words, thoughts, and actions of their lives? can the secrets of all hearts be disclosed in the hearing of heaven and earth in a little space of time? No verily, but the preparation for eternal judgment will take up more time than a few weeks, or months, or ages. I do believe, that a thousand years will be but a part, a morning as it were, of that great and last day, after which all things must be swallowed up in the amazing gulf of an endless eternity.
And in this sence only it is true, that there will a time come (according to those blessed Petitions in that pattern of prayer, commonly called the Lords prayer)