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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.
Obj. 2. Doth not Christ say that the kingdom of God cometh not with observation, Luke 17.20. How then is it true, that Christ shall have such a glorious kingdom upon earth as we have heard?
Answ. 1. The meaning of our Saviour in that place may be, that his first coming should not be according to the Pharisees expectation: (o)The words rendered with observation may be read with expectation. The kingdom of God, i. e. the kingdom of Messiah, which is called the kingdom ⟨p. 129⟩of God, and the kingdom of heaven, because it is that kingdom which Daniel prophesied the God of heaven should set up, was not to begin as the Pharisees and other Jews thought it would. You (saith Christ to the Pharisees) make account that as soon as Messiah cometh, he will deliver you out of the hands of the Romans, and become a great earthly Monarch; but you are much mistaken, therefore it is added, ver. 21. The kingdom of God is amongst you, i. e. the Messiah is now amongst you; for I do not take the meaning of those words to be, that Christ's kingdom is regnum animarum in the souls and consciences of men, though that be a great truth, (p)yet though there be veritas rei in that exposition, there is not veritas loci, but Christ would give them to understand, that Messiah was already come and conversing amongst them.
Answ. 1. The meaning of our Saviour in that place may be, that his first coming should not be according to the Pharisees expectation: (o)The words rendred with observation may be read with expectation. The kingdom of God, i. e. the kingdom of Messias, which is called the kingdom ⟨p. 129⟩