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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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Use 3. If it be so, that all the Tribes of Israel shall be saved: Hence then it followeth, that we should seek unto God continually that he would hasten the day of Israels salvation. Matters of prophecy and promise should be turned into prayer. Now there is a prophecy and a promise (my Text containeth them both) That all Israel shall be saved. Therefore let prayer be made by us all that have any interest in the God of Israel, that he would ⟨p. 178⟩perform (yea, and hasten it in its time) what his own mouth hath spoken concerning this matter.
Use 3. If it be so, that all the Tribes of Israel shall be saved: Hence then it followeth, that we should seek unto God continually that he would hasten the day of Israels salvation. Matters of prophesie and promise should be turned into prayer. Now there is a prophesie and a promise (my Text containeth them both) That all Israel shall be saved. Therefore let prayer be made by us all that have any interest in the God of Israel, that he would ⟨p. 178⟩perform (yea, and hasten it in its time) what his own mouth hath spoken concerning this matter.
Here consider briefly. 1. That thus to pray it our duty. The holy Commandment of the Lord requireth i•, Isa. 62.6, 7. I have set watchmen upon thy walls O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night; ye that make mention of the Lord keep not silence, and give him no rest till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. What a solemn charge is here, that we should pray continually every night and every day, and that we should let the Lord have no rest in heaven, till Jerusalem be ma•e a praise in the earth? And when will that be? Verily when Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. Therefore we should be unceasing in prayer for this! We ought to pray for the Incubation of Israels salvation, in the conversion of the Jewish Nation. Likewise we ought to pray hard for the consummation of this salvation, in new Jerusalems coming down from God out of heaven. This did our Lord teach us, when he bid us pray, that the kingdom of God might come; and that his will might be done on earth as it is done in heaven. In that kingdom which the God of heaven shall set up at the day of Messiah his second coming, his will shall be done on earth as it is done in heaven. Oh! how should we strive in prayer that the coming of this dear and blessed day may be hastened? Besides, the examples of God's servants, who have prayed for Israels salvation, do bind us to do the like. How earnest was the Apostle in his desires after this thing? Paul could have been content