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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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2. He that would have good understanding in the Mystery of God, must be sure to walk before the Lord in simplicity, and in godly sincerity. Sincerity, truth of grace will do much to help one in this case. Hence it is observable, that Christ when he blamed the Pharisees for their ignorance in the signs of the times, he doth not call them fools and blind, as oft he did, and as they deserved; but he calls them Hypocrites. Matth. 16.3. O ye hypocrites, ye cannot discern the signs of the times, q. d. If you had sincerity, you would discern the signs of the times; but because you are graceless hypocrites, you discern them not. And Matth. 13.11. Christ saith unto his sincere Disciples It is given unto you to know the Mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. It was given unto them to understand the Mysteries of the Gospel and kingdom of grace; likewise it was given unto them to understand the Mystery of the kingdom of the Messiah, in making all things new, that by the second Adam the world might at last be restored unto that glorious condition in the which it was created for the first Adam. This is a Mystery of the kingdom indeed, which the world understands but little of in truth. See also Dan. 12.10. None of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. The wicked shall not perceive what God is doing in the world, when he is ⟨p. 167⟩fulfilling what he hath spoken of by his Prophets. Though the works of God, and the word of God, speak plainly enough unto those that have their hearts set upon the truth, to know it; yet as for profane and hypocrites, their minds shall be blinded, and their hearts hardened, that they shall not see nor believe, but the wise, i. e. the righteous (for he, and only he, is a wise man in the account of God and Scripture, who is a sincere righteous man) shall understand. See Hos. 14. last. Hence the Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 8.3. If any man love God, the same is taught: (So (t)