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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.
The Lord will consume the wicked one with the breath of his mouth, and (i)abolish him with the ⟨p. 142⟩brightness of his coming. Mark here I pray you, There is a consumption to befall Antichrist, and after that, an abolition; The consumption is to be by the breath of the Lords mouth, i. e. by the power of his word and spirit. Antichrist hath been in a deep consumption above these hundred years. Bellarmin (k)complains that ever since the Protestants have taught that the Pope was Antichrist, his dominion hath been exceedingly diminished. But then there is an utter abolition of Antichrist yet to come, and that will be by the Epiphany of the Lords presence, the brightness of his coming, which even they (l)that are far enough from any Millenary notion or opinion, do nevertheless (some of them) interpret of a personal coming to judgment: And indeed the day of judgment is usually signified by that expression, of the coming of the Lord, 2 Thes. 2.1. & 1 Cor. 16.22. If any love not the Lord Jesus Christ, which words are an Hebraism, the meaning is, if any maliciously blaspheme the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, i. e. accursed; maranatha, i. e. the Lord cometh, the meaning is, let the curse of God remain upon him till dooms day. So that the day of ⟨p. 143⟩judgment is signified by that expression of the Lords coming. Furthermore, in the 9th. Psalm, in the Title of the Psalm it is said to be upon Much-labben, that is in English, the death of the son, what son is that, but the son of perdition, sc. Antichrist. Now in ver. 7, 8. It is said the Lord hath prepared his Throne for judgment, and he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. So that when Much-labben, when the death of the son of perdition shall come, the Lord will sit upon his Throne judging the world. But the final ruin of Antichrist cannot be far off. It is certain that the time, times, and half a time allowed for Antichrists reign is very far spent; therefore the day of judgment draws on apace. Now what a most comfortable meditation is this? Amen, even so, come Lord Jesus, come quickly!