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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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Besides, it is evident, that there is some peculiar excellency in these mysteries which concerns the glory of Christs kingdom upon earth, because it hath been the great design of Satan to obscure, and darken, and hide these truths from the world. From the great subtlety of Satan it hath come to pass that some men of very corrupt minds have asserted that Messiah shall have a glorious kingdom upon the earth, Some (b)say that Cerinthus (adding to this opinion carnal and heretical delusions) did so maintain; to be sure he was a very desperate Heretic, and may be one of those Antichrists which the Apostle speaketh of when he saith, that many Antichrists were then come, 1 John 2.18. Likewise the Jews in their Talmud have many gross and carnal conceits about the temporal glory of Messiah his kingdom. So ⟨p. 148⟩have many •hat are of the fifth-Monarchy persuasion. So had those monstrous (c)German Anabaptists which were stirred up by the Devil to oppose the Reformation in Luther's days. And there is a (d)Popish Sect at this present, which doth maintain that there will be a glorious restitution of all things here below. Now by this means Satan hath greatly prevailed to keep the world in ignorance of the true glory of these mysteries; for many good men are apt to think with themselves, what? shall we believe that the Saints shall have a glorious reign upon earth? that's an opinion which Heretics have held, which savours of Judaism, which such and such disorderly persons have been taken with, and so Satan hath his design in keeping many godly souls from enjoying the comfort of these truths. This then showeth, that there is some divine excellency in these mysteries, otherwise the wicked one would not so envy Gods children the knowledge of these things. Again, it is evident, that there is an excellency in these truths, because of the difficulty which is in coming to the clear understanding of them.
Besides, it is evident, that there is some peculiar excellency in these mysteries which concerns the glory of Christs kingdom upon earth, because it hath been the great design of Satan to obscure, and darken, and hide these truths from the world. From the great subtilty of Satan it hath come to pass that some men of very corrupt minds have asserted that Messias shall have a glorious kingdom upon the earth, Some