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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
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5ly, The time will come when the Land of Israel shall be made exceeding fruitful, therefore we may well assert a temporal salvation. I say ⟨p. 123⟩there will a time come when there shall be great (d)plenty as well as great peace over the earth, Zech. 8.12. the seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew, and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things, Joel 3.18. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Mountains shall drop down new wine; and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the Rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, &c. These expressions of the mountains dropping down new wine, &c. are the high and hyperbolical Metaphors of a prophetical strain, whereby may be signified the admirable fertility of the earth. And it must needs be so, because the barrenness of the earth was a fruit of the curse for the sin of man. God said to Adam, after he had sinned, cursed is the ground for thy sake: But now, when new Jerusalem cometh down from heaven, the curse shall be removed, Rev. 22.3. there shall be no more curse, but the Throne of God, and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him. For the truth is, that in the new heaven and the new earth, which is promised in the Scripture, things shall be restored unto that glorious perfection which they were in at the first creation before the Apostasy, Ezek. 36.35. They shall say, this Land which was desolate is become like the Garden of Eden, i. e. like Paradise. See Isa. 51.3. Hence the Prophets have spoken of the times of the restitution of all things, Acts 3.21. why, the restitution of all things? But because man by sin, hath put all the world out of order, ⟨p. 124⟩