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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.
As if Adam had never sinned, he had enjoyed a natural life upon earth for a long time. And indeed it was especially a natural life, which the Covenant of works promised. When it was said to Adam, Do and live, the meaning was, Thou shalt then live a long and happy life upon earth: even so when God shall make all things new, the Saints shall be wonderfully delivered from natural, as well as spiritual death. Therefore it is said that ⟨p. 121⟩when new Jerusalem cometh down from heaven, there shall be no more death. And of this we have a promise made to Israel, Hos. 13.14. I will ransom them from the power of the grave, I will redeem them from death. See also Isa. 65.17. behold, I create new heavens, & a new earth; & v. 20. there shall be no more thence an infant of days, or an old man that hath not fulfilled his days, verse 22. for as the days of a tree (or rather the tree) are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. (c)Some interpret the place that they shall live as long as Adam should have done, in case he had been confirmed in his integrity by eating of the tree of life which was in the midst of Paradise. However the Scripture must be fulfilled, which saith that the meek shall inherit the earth, Psal. 37.11. Matth. 5.5. The meek shall inherit not only heaven, but the earth, heaven and earth are theirs, they have a right to both in respect of the promise; they are heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. The meek, for the present, how do they inherit the earth, when the wicked turn them off from the earth at their pleasure? well, but the time will come, when they shall inherit the earth. Abraham, and so the children of Abraham, shall become heirs of the world, h. e. of the new world, which according to divine promise we look for in time to be created, Rom. 4.13. 2 Pet. 3.13