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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.
It is also true, that these truths have been very much obscured, they have been little searched into, little known, little believed in the world. It may be some of you think that they are new and strange notions: But if you think them new, I can assure ⟨p. 126⟩you upon diligent search, that these things passed for currant Doctrine in the Church of God for divers hundred of years in the Primitive and purest days of the Christian Church. Yea they were never called into question until the third or fourth Century, when Antichrist began to rise. And then indeed it was high time that those truths, which do so much concern the glory of the kingdom of the Messiah, should be opposed and obscured, when the great enemy of Christ began to get head in the world. And ever since, albeit some of the Lords Worthies have born witness unto these very truths, yet they have been exceedingly darkened; partly by those that have gone beyond what is written in the word, and partly by those that have set themselves to oppose what the word saith. Nevertheless, if these be (as I am persuaded verily they are) the faithful and true sayings of God; it will be our great sin, if we should neglect to search into them: But how sinful a thing then must it needs be to oppose and contemn these Mysteries of God?
It is also true, that these truths have been very much obscured, they have been little searched into, little known, little believed in the world. It may be some of you think that they are new and strange notions: But if you think them new, I can assure ⟨p. 126⟩you upon diligent search, that these things passed for currant Doctrine in the Church of God for divers hundred of years in the Primitive and purest days of the Christian Church. Yea they were never called into question until the third or fourth Century, when Antichrist began to rise. And then indeed it was high time that those truths, which do so much concern the glory of the kingdom of the Messias, should be opposed and obscured, when the great enemy of Christ began to get head in the world. And ever since, albeit some of the Lords Worthies have born witness unto these very truths, yet they have been exceedingly darkned; partly by those that have gone beyond what is written in the word, and partly by those that have set themselves to oppose what the word saith. Nevertheless, if these be (as I am perswaded verily they are) the faithful and true sayings of God; it will be our great sin, if we should neglect to search into them: But how sinful a thing then must it needs be to oppose and contemn these Mysteries of God?