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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.
•. Consider that we have many promises to encourage us in making this prayer before the Lord. We have not only promises, that the thing shall come to pass in due time, which is encouragement enough; but it is promised, that we our selves shall be no losers by praying for this thing. If David could say that when he fought unto God for his enemies, that his prayer returned into his own bosom: Surely we shall find, that when in sincerity we seek unto God for Israel, that prayer will return into our own bosom. Remember what the Lord saith, Psal. 122.6. pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper that love thee: And though the words are to be extended unto Mystical, there is no reason why Literal Jerusalem should be excluded out of that Text. See also Rev. 21.6. I will give (saith he, who is Alpha and Omega) to him that is athirst, of the fountain of the water of life freely. To him that is a thirst, for what? even to him that is athirst for the salvation of Israel, for the conversion of the Jews, for the creating of the new heaven and the new earth which is promised, to him that is thus athirst will the Lord give of the fountain of the water of life freely.
•. Consider that we have many promises to encourage us in making this prayer before the Lord. We have not only promises, that the thing shall come to pass in due time, which is encouragement enough; but it is promised, that we our selves shall be no loosers by praying for this thing. If David could say that when he fought unto God for his enemies, that his prayer returned into his own bosom: Surely we shall find, that when in sincerity we seek unto God for Israel, that prayer will return into our own bosom. Remember what the Lord saith, Psal. 122.6. pray for the peace of Ierusalem, they shall prosper that love thee: And though the words are to be extended unto Mystical, there is no reason why Literal Ierusalem should be excluded out of that Text. See also Rev. 21.6. I will give (saith he, who is Alpha and Omega) to him that is athirst, of the fountain of the water of life freely. To him that is a thirst, for what? even to him that is athirst for the salvation of Israel, for the conversion of the Iews, for the creating of the new heaven and the new earth which is promised, to him that is thus athirst will the Lord give of the fountain of the water of life freely.