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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.
Not that I can (d)any way approve of their presumption, who go about to determine justly, how long it shall be to the day of judgment; ⟨p. 140⟩Nay, if that principle which was (e)an ancient and common tradition amongst the Jews whilst they were yet the Church of God, and which from them many Learned men (f)have taken up, should hold true, viz. That this world should continue six thousand years (according to the days of the week at the first creation) and that the 7th. thousand should be the glorious Sabbatism or rest upon earth which remaineth for the people of God, yet no one can tell justly when the day of judgment shall begin, for none can tell justly how old the world is. According to the (g)account of some, the world is even now above 6000 years old; According to the present Jewish (†)supputation the world will not be so old near this 600 years; And others there are, (*)who, upon very probable grounds, think that the world wanteth not an hundred years of being 6000 years old. Thus there is great ⟨p. 141⟩variety in computations. Doubtless (as one observeth) by this confusion in accounts, the Lord hath put a check to the ambitious and curious minds of men, who else would have been (as some have) too rashly determining the very time of Christ's coming to judge the world, whereas God will have that day to come upon all the earth like a snare. Nevertheless we may safely affirm in the general, that the time is nearer than most are aware of. (h)Divines are wont to make the conversion of the Jews an immediate sign fore-running the day of judgment. Consider