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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. 3. Doth not Christ say, my kingdom is not of this world, John 18.36. how then is it true that Christ shall have such a glorious kingdom upon earth as that which hath been spoken of?
Obj. 3. Doth not Christ say, my kingdom is not of this world, Iohn 18.36. how then is it true that Christ shall have such a glorious kingdom upon earth as that which hath been spoken of?
Answ. 1. That may be in this world which is not of the world, so John 17.14. they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. And yet both Christ and they were then in the world. 2. The kingdom of Christ may be said not to be of this world, because it is not of a carnal earthly, but of an high and heavenly nature. It is an heavenly kingdom, 2 Tim. 4.18. The very kind and nature of it is so. This bringeth to mind a (u)remarkable story which Eusebius relateth to have fallen out in the days of the Emperor Domitian, it is this. There were (saith he) some malicious Jews, who out of envy at the truth informed the Emperor, that such and such persons were, as concerning the flesh, near akin unto Christ; whereupon the Emperor sent for those persons, intending to have killed them; but when he heard them say, that the kingdom of Christ was not of a terrene, but only of a celestial nature, he dismissed them without doing them any hurt. And hence it is, that the kingdom of Christ is not carried on by earthly and carnal, but by spiritual weapons, 2 Cor. 10.4. our weapons are not carnal. The kingdoms of this world how are they got? and how are they ⟨p. 133⟩