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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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Now then by applying this distinction, the answer to the objection is clear & easy, viz. that the first coming of Christ should not at all be according to the Jews expectation in respect of visible glory, but at the first he was to come in the form of a Servant, as an abject amongst men, and to be abhorred of his own Nation according to the savings of the Prophets; but the second coming of Christ shall be in as great visible (and yet spiritual) glory as ever the Jews expected that the coming of Messiah would be, Matth. 24.30. They shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, and Chap. 25.31. The Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy Angels with him; then shall he sit upon the Throne of his glory. And hence it is observable, that Christ did never absolutely deny his having such a visible glorious kingdom upon earth, as that which his Disciples then looked for, only he corrected their error as to the time of this kingdoms appearing. The Disciples said, Lord wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? Acts 1.6. Christ did not say to them, that there should never •e any such restoration of the kingdom to Israel, as their thoughts were running upon, only telleth them that the times and seasons were not for them to know, thereby acknowledging that such a ⟨p. 131⟩kingdom should indeed be as they (for the substance of it) did from the holy Prophets expect; Thus, Luke 19.11. There were some that thought that the kingdom of God would immediately appear. Now therein was their error; not in expecting a glorious appearance of the kingdom of God, but in that they made account this would be immediately. Whereupon our Saviour, to correct that error as to the time of his kingdoms coming, speaketh a Parable of a certain noble man that went into a far Country to receive for himself a kingdom, and so to return. What is this far Country, but heaven? when Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, then he began his glorious kingdom: Hence our Saviour said, Mark 9.1. there be some of them that stand here which shall not taste death till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power. What is the meaning of that? The