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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 hence we read of the Redemption of Israel, as in that verse from whence the Apostle demonstrateth the words of my Text, sc. Isa. 59.20. 'tis said, the Redeemer shall come to Zion. Now that very word Redemption doth usually signify temporal as well as spiritual salvation, a deliverance of the body as well as of the soul, Luke 21.28. your redemption draweth nigh, what is that? (b)great Interpreters take it to be the same with that redemption which the Apostle speaketh of, when he saith, Rom. 8.23. we wait for the redemption of our body. However, sure it its, that the time will come when strangers shall be able to oppress the children of Israel no more, but the quite contrary shall be true, sc. that their oppressors shall be brought under them. See Zech. 10.4. out of him (i. e. out of Israel) came forth (or shall come forth, for the words are a Prophecy of what shall be, and not an History of what hath been) the corner, out of him the nail, i. e. the Magistrates and Rulers, who are compared unto corner stones, and to nails, because the safety of the whole building and body politic greatly depends upon them; out of him the battle bow, i. e. the Military man, out of ⟨p. 119⟩him every oppressor together, i. e. such as shall suppress, not Israel but the enemies of Israel. So Isa. 14.2, 3. They shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall give them rest from their sorrows, and from their fears, and from the hard bondage wherein they were made to serve. See also Chap. 60. verse 14. with Ezek. 39.10.
And hence we read of the Redemption of Israel, as in that verse from whence the Apostle demonstrateth the words of my Text, sc.