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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.
TO THE READER.
The scope of this Treatise, is to hold forth the calling of the Jews, their reduction into their own Land, and the glorious estate of the Church which shall then be. Some have conceived there shall be no other calling of them, than what was at their return out of the Babylonish Captivity. It's true, that then some of all Tribes came out of the Eastern parts, and the twelve Tribes are mentioned, Acts 26.7. but Isaiah speaks of a Remnant left, which should be recovered a second time.1 Some acknowledge the calling of the Jews, but not a National call, which the Apostle clearly intimates, Rom. 11.15. The Rejection of them was National, and such will be the Reception of them, which Cornel. a Lapid. acknowledgeth,2 only he excepts the Tribe of Dan. because none are sealed of that Tribe, Rev. 7. but all Israel shall be saved, even that Tribe ⟨image ?⟩with the others, not Israel the Elect, for that is no Mystery, but Israel the Jewish Nation, which was cut off, shall be called and saved, and that's a Mystery, Rom. 11.25. Some do grant the whole body of the Jewish Nation shall be called, but not come into their own Land, for the Lord Christ hath prophesied, that their house shall be left desolate, but not for ever; it was prophesied of their former house, that it should be desolate, Isa. 6.11. yet after it was restored and inhabited, and Christ intimates as much of this,