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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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3. Blasphemy is a most fearful sin ▪ It is a crime to be punished by the Judge. Now the Jews lie under the guilt of blasphemy, as it is said concerning the Papists, Rev. 13.6. That they blaspheme the tabernacle of God, i. e. the humane nature of Christ in respect of their Idolatrous Mass, Transubstantiation, &c. So it is true concerning the Jews, that they blaspheme the tabernacle of God. In another sense, they speak evil of the man Christ Jesus. Yea they are (some of them at least) guilty of the most hideous and horrid blasphemy against the Son of God, the only God-man Jesus Christ, that ever was heard of. For they are wont to curse that blessed name in their Synagogues. (c)In their Liturgies they pray, that the name of Jesus of Nazareth may be rooted out of the Earth. O fearful blasphemy! whose heart trembleth not at the hearing of it? In this respect some of the Jewish Liturgies are worse than the Turkish Alcoran; For (d)that speaketh honourably of Christ: Likewise they are wont to call the blessed Gospel (e)a Volume of lies, ⟨p. 175⟩or falsehood. One would think it impossible that such sinners should ever be saved. And indeed if they knew they did blaspheme (as the Pharisees knew it, many of them) there were no forgiveness for them: But because of the infinite grace of him whose name it is to forgive iniquity, transgression and sin, they may, and in God's time the Nation shall have repentance and remission of sins given unto them. Therefore the greatest sinners may be saved.
3. Blasphemy is a most fearful sin ▪ It is a crime to be punished by the Judge. Now the Iews lie under the guilt of blasphemy, as it is said concerning the Papists, Rev. 13.6. That they blaspheme the tabernacle of God, i. e. the humane nature of Christ in respect of their Idolatrous Mass, Transubstantiation, &c. So it is true concerning the Iews, that they blaspheme the tabernacle of God. In another sence, they speak evil of the man Christ Iesus. Yea they are (some of them at least) guilty of the most hideous and horrid blasphemy against the Son of God, the only God-man Jesus Christ, that ever was heard of. For they are wont to curse that blessed name in their Synagogues.