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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.
1. Reading and meditation is one good means, that by the blessing of God may help you to much understanding. Hence Dan. 9.2. I (saith the Prophet) understood by books that seventy years should be accomplished, &c. Daniel, though he were himself a (x)Prophet, yet he disdained not to make use of the books written by Jeremiah, that so he might understand the counsel of God concerning the Tribes of Israel which then were.
1. Reading and meditation is one good means, that by the blessing of God may help you to much understanding. Hence Dan. 9.2. I (saith the Prophet) understood by books that seventy years should be accomplished, &c. Daniel, though he were himself a (x)Prophet, yet he disdained not to make use of the books written by Ieremy, that so he might understand the counsel of God concerning the Tribes of Israel which then were.
- (x)Licet ipse Daniel Propheta esset & doctor Ecclesia, non gravatus fuit Jeremiae discipu•us fieri & ex ipsius libris Proficere. Polan. in loc.Licet ipse Daniel Propheta esset & doctor Ecclesia, non gravatus fuit Ieremiae discipu•us fieri & ex ipsius libris Proficere. Polan. in loc.
2. Discourses and holy conferences about these matters would be an excellent means to attain unto a right understanding in them. The Prophet Malachi saith, that they that feared the Lord spake ••ten one to another. And truly, if they that fear God when they meet together, instead of worldly discourse, or vain unprofitable discourse, and foolish questions which gender strife, would speak one to another in a serious manner concerning […] glorious kingdom of Christ, in the day when he shall restore the kingdom unto Israel, it would be much more for their comfort in the day of accounts: And the Lord who is in heaven above, and on earth beneath, would take notice of it, and give a blessed reward for it in that day. And this is a most suitable subject for Saints to be discoursing on,