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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.
out of which the Apostle taketh those words, treateth of Christs second coming to judgment, and not of his first coming in the form of a Servant; therefore, by the world to come is meant the day of judgment, therefore the day of judgment w•ll be of long continuance, therefore there will […] day when the S•ints upon earth shall for a long time be in a sinless glorious estate. And then will that Scripture, which is now fulfilled spiritually, be fulfilled literally, Rev. 5.10. We shall reign on earth, but expect not that the kingdom under the whole heaven should be given unto the Saints of the most high, until such time as the judgment shall sit, Dan. chap. 7. And this is the best and clearest answer, that I know, to that objection, which some have made against those who maintain that there will be a glorious day for the Church upon earth, after which the Saints shall endure no more persecution, viz. That ⟨p. 113⟩this is against the Doctrine of Christ and the Apostles, who say, that all that will live godly shall suffer persecution, and if we will reign with Christ, we must suffer for him, and have many tribulations, and that this world is an evil world, &c. True, it must be thus as long as the present state of the world continueth, but in the new world, or world to come, which the Scripture speaketh of, the condition of the Saints will be quite otherwise than in this present world it is wont to be.
out of which the Apostle taketh those words, treateth of Christs second coming to judgment, and not of his first coming in the form of a Servant; therefore, by the world to come is meant the day of judgment, therefore the day of judgment w•ll be of long continuance, therefore there will 〈…〉 day when the S•ints upon earth shall for a long time be in a sinless glorious estate. And then will that Scripture, which is now fulfilled spiritually, be fulfilled literally, Rev. 5.10. We shall reign on earth, but expect not that the kingdom under the whole heaven should be given unto the Saints of the most high, untill such time as the judgment shall sit,