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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 therefore the creatures do all in their kind, sigh and groan before the great God that he would deliver them from this servitude, that they might no more be made use of to the dishonour of their blessed Creator; and therefore the creatures shall be delivered, and made use of only for that end which they were at first made for. And this shall be in the day when the glory of the sons of God shall be manifested. (f)And hence the state of the new heaven, and the new earth is described by such things as were when Adam was in Paradise, but never since, Isa. 65.25. The Wolf and the Lamb shall feed together, and the Lion shall eat straw like the Bullock, ⟨p. 125⟩and dust shall be the serpents meat, they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain saith the Lord. (g)Before the fall, the Woolf and the Lamb, the Bullock and the Lion could live quietly by one another, man was not subject to hurt by serpents or venomous creatures, there was not that enmity in any of the creatures to seek the destruction of one another. Even thus shall it be again: as Adam was a Type of Christ, Rom. 5.14. So was Adams world, a Type of Christ, the second Adam his world, when he shall come to judge the earth. I know some Jewish Doctors deride at these things (h)saying that when the new heaven and new earth spoken of in the Scripture shall take place, there will be no alteration in the nature of things, only that their Nation shall have a temporal Monarchy and Dominion over all other Nations. But what if such Rabbis (†)should be amongst the number of those scoffers which the Apostle Peter speaketh of, who say, that all things shall continue as they were from the creation, and that Messiah, at his coming, shall not destroy the old world and create a new one?