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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.
Blood may note the turning of water into blood: Fire, that there shall be strange fiery Meteors, flashes of fire in a fearful manner seen in the Heavens; vapour of smoke, may signify terrible Comets, which (some say) the Hebrews of old, were wont to call by the name of a (p)pillar of smoke. But besides this, blood may note a bloody sword; and fire terrible devastations by burning, and (possibly) vapour of smoke (†)may signify burnings by fire also. Now then, is this the day of blood and fire? The Lord then is roaring from on high, to give us warning, that the great and notable day is coming. One Scripture more let me mention before I pass off from this, viz. Hag. 2.6, 7. Thus ⟨p. 162⟩saith the Lord of hosts, yet once it is a little while, and I will shake the Heaven, and the Earth, and the Sea, and the dry Land, and I will shake all Nations, and the desire of all nations shall come. The words are true concerning the second coming of the Messiah, as well as concerning his first coming. Observe now, I will shake Heaven and Earth, i. e. the whole (†)world. Particularly, consider what is said. I will shake the heaven, saith God. Is not this come to pass? Are not the powers of heaven shaking? I am persuaded, that who ever liveth a while longer, will hear that the Stars are falling down from heaven, like untimely figs from a shaken tree. And the earth; Is not this fulfilling also? Do you not feel an earthquake at this day? Is not the Lord arising to shake terribly the earth? The earth is moved exceedingly, the earth reeleth to and fro, the earth is clean dissolved, the transgression thereof is heavy upon it, the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. And the Sea; Is not this sign also fulfilling? what roarings have there been upon the Sea of late? Is not the day of the Lord upon the Ships of Tarshish? How are men afraid to venture upon the Sea? because God is shaking not only the dry Land, but the Sea? I will shake all Nations; Is not this also fulfilling? God hath alarmed all the Nations, do you not hear the rushing of the Nations? when were all the Nations in such a posture? Europe, Asia, Africa, America, all are in a tumult.