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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.
First the thing is evident, inasmuch as the day will come when the children of Israel shall be no more oppressed by the great ones of the earth; ⟨p. 118⟩There will be a time when the man of the earth shall no more oppress, Psal. 10.18. Hence Isa. 54.1•. thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near thee. Hence Peter said unto the Jews, that after their repentance, times of refreshing shall come, Acts 3.19. Now what do these times of refreshing note, but a day, wherein there shall be freedom from all persecution and corporal oppressions?
First the thing is evident, inasmuch as the day will come when the children of Israel shall be no more oppressed by the great ones of the earth; ⟨p. 118⟩There will be a time when the man of the earth shall no more oppress, Psal. 10.18. Hence Isa. 54.1•. thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear, and from terrour, for it shall not come near thee. Hence Peter said unto the Iews, that after their repentance, times of refreshing shall come, Acts 3.19. Now what do these times of refreshing note, but a day, wherein there shall be freedom from all persecution and corporal oppressions?
And hence we read of the Redemption of Israel, as in that verse from whence the Apostle demonstrateth the words of my Text, sc.