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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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4. Murder is a most horrid sin. The cry of blood is heard from Earth to Heaven. Now, the Jews lie under the guilt of Blood and Murder. Some (f)have laid a most hideous fact to the charge of the Jews, sc. that they have been wont once a year to steal Christian children, and to put them to death by crucifying out of scorn and hatred against Christians. But inasmuch as those reports were taken up in dark and Popish times, it (g)may be questioned whether truth be in them or no. So it hath been laid to the charge of Jews, that (h)they poisoned the waters of some Countries that they might be the death of those that lived therein. However, it is certain, that the most prodigious Murder that ever the Sun beheld, (yea such Murder as the Sun durst not behold) hath been ⟨p. 176⟩committed by the Jews, and that the guilt thereof lieth upon the Jewish Nation to this day, even the guilt of the blood of the Saviour of the world, of him that is the Prince of life, and Lord of glory. See Acts 2.23. & 7.52. Oh! to be guilty of blood, though it were but the blood of the meanest person in the world, is a sad thing; but to be guilty of the blood of him that is God as well as man, how doleful is that? whence is it, that coming unworthily to the Lords Supper is such a dreadful sin? if a man come to the Table of the Lord either without regenerating grace in his soul, or without actual preparedness. Though he should have grace, yet if his heart be not in a right and heavenly frame to come to the Table of the Lord, it is a dreadful thing; why? because he becometh guilty of the blood of the Lord, not only guilty, but guilty of blood; yea of the blood of the Lord. Now this is true concerning the Jewish Nation, that the guilt of the blood of the Lord of Heaven and Earth lieth upon that Nation; yet they shall be converted and saved. Therefore the greatest sinners may be saved.
4. Murther is a most horrid sin. The cry of bloud is heard from Earth to Heaven. Now, the Iews lie under the guilt of Bloud and Murther. Some