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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.
Now in the prosecution of this Use, two things may be attended. 1. To lay down some Motives to stir us up to search into these mysterious things. 2. Some Rules of direction to be observed, in order to attaining the knowledge thereof.
For Motives consider 1. The divine excellency which is in these mysterious truths. Indeed all truth is of a divine original. God is the Author of all truth, because he is the Author of all being, and truth and being are the same: As all goodness is originally from the goodness of God, so all truth is originally from the truth of God: Hence God is called, the God of truth, and his spirit, the spirit of truth; because (a)all truth is from God, and from his spirit. But especially this is true concerning those truths that cannot be known by the book of the creature, but only by the book of Scripture: and most of all is this true concerning Prophetical Scripture. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God; but this is eminently to be affirmed of the prophesies contained in the Scriptures of truth, 2 Pet. 1.20, 21. Hence the prophetical book of the new Testament ⟨p. 147⟩is called by the name of Revelation, Rev. 1.1. The revelation of Jesus Christ; why Revelation? but because the things contained in that book, had never been known amongst the sons of men, had it not been for the extraordinary Revelation of the spirit of Christ. As the Gospel is said to be by revelation, Gal. 1.12. because the mysteries of the Gospel are not learned out of the book of Nature. So the prophesies of God's word are called Revelation, because the things therein contained had never been known unto the world, but by and from the Revelation of the spirit.