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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.
2ly, The present Tumults and shakings of the Nations are a sign, that the Mystery of God shall be finished ere long, and that the kingdom shall become the Lord's all the world over. Certainly I do believe that this earthquake which the Lord of heaven and earth hath now begun, will not be over until Babylon fall and rise no more. A few years ago there was a strange calm upon the world; what was that a sign of? Truly, that calm, which was on the earth six or seven years ago, was a prognostic of the Earthquake wherein the witnesses shall be raised, and a tenth part of the City shall fall. Consider the Scriptures, see Psal. 46. (which some are wont to call Luther's Psalm, because Luther was much delighted in the reading and singing thereof.) Now in the Title of the Psalm it is said to be upon (l)Alamoth, what is that? the word cometh from the Hebrew Alam, which signifieth hid or secret, (†)and therefore the seventy Interpreters render the word [Greek or Hebrew], i. e. upon the hidden things: So then from the Title of the Psalm we may gather, that when the things therein spoken do come to pass, it is a sign that the Mysteries of God, even that Mystery which hath been hid in God, as the Apostle speaketh, is fulfilling and finishing. Now see ver. 8. Behold the works of God, what desolations he ⟨p. 159⟩hath made in the earth. Is not this Scripture fulfilling? Is not the Lord making desolations in the earth? we may gather thence, that the [Greek or Hebrew], the hidden things of the Mystery of God are finishing apace. Consider also ver. 9. He maketh Wars to cease unto the end of the earth, he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder, he burneth the chariot in fire: There shall such a day as this come upon the earth, even a day wherein the Nations shall learn War no more; but before this day there must be terrible doings and desolations made upon the earth, as a sign of that glorious tranquillity, which the most high (whose method of divine providence, is to bring light out of darkness, good out of evil, order out of confusion, peace out of war) will establish on the earth. I may tell you therefore, that dreadful wars, confused noise, and garments rolled in blood, are a sign of Christ's appearing to establish his kingdom on the Earth.