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…

4. It is evident, that the Tribes of Israel shall partake of a spiritual salvation, if we consider the visible Church estate which they shall be in after their conversion.

Albeit now there is no Church amongst the Jews, yet the time is at hand, when God will erect many glorious Churches amongst them, and upon every dwelling place of Zion, and upon all the glory he will be a defence. And the Church polity which Israel shall then be under, will not be a carnal one (such as was from Moses unto Christ) but a very spiritual polity, for they shall be no more under the Mosaical pedagogy, no more under the ceremonial Law. It hath been charged upon those who did in the Primitive times assert the glorious reign of Christ upon earth, that they did also maintain that there would be sacrifices and other ceremonies of Moses Law, so ^(x)Jerome saith, that the ancient Doctors held. I do believe, that that is a very injurious charge; and that it never once entered into the heart of any of those godly and Learned Teachers in the Church to imagine such a th•ng. ⟨p. 114⟩However, sure I am, that the word of the Lord […] express to the contrary. Hence the Jews, after the […] conversion, are said to be under, not the old, bu• the new Covenant, i. e. not under the old but the new manner (for the Covenant of grace as to th• substance of it is for ever the same) of administration of the Covenant. Hence the Lord saith to Israel. But not by thy Covenant, Ezek. 16.61. The truth is, that Christ, by his coming, abolished the ceremonial Law, and nailed it to his Cross, and buried it in his grave. And a most loathsome work do they perform both to God and man, that dig up the ceremonies out of that grave where Jesus Christ buried them, above sixteen hundred years ago. Hence