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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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Consider 3. There was a time when the Israelite• did pray for us, therefore in equity we should pray for them. Time was when the Jews were the people of God, and Gentiles were not so: And then did they pray for the conversion of Gentiles, that Gentiles might have the saving health of God extended towards them, and the breasts of divine Ordinances to suck grace and consolation from. Therefore inasmuch as the case is now quite altered, that the Jews are not the people of God, but many amongst the Gentiles are so: we should in like manner pray for them, that they may see the salvation of the Lord, Psal. 67. per totum, Cant. 8.8.
Consider 3. There was a time when the Israelite• did pray for us, therefore in equity we should pray for them. Time was when the Iews were the people of God, and Gentiles were not so: And then did they pray for the conversion of Gentiles, that Gentiles might have the saving health of God extended towards them, and the breasts of divine Ordinances to suck grace and consolation from. Therefore inasmuch as the case is now quite altered, that the Iews are not the people of God, but many amongst the Gentiles are so: we should in like manner pray for them, that they may see the salvation of the Lord, Psal. 67. per totum, Cant. 8.8.
Consider 4. Prayer may be a means to hasten the coming of this glorious day of Israels salvation. Would we not have Zion to be delivered, and that speedily? pour forth earnest and continual prayer, and it will hasten the birth of Zion, that even a Nation shall be born in one day. It is prayer that sets the wheels of divine providence a going; It is prayer that turns the world upside down. Therefore you may observe, that seldom doth any great ••teration of the state and face of things come to pass in the world, but the Lord first sends down a spirit of prayer into the hearts of his Saints, and that shaketh heaven and earth in pieces in a short time. Observe then (my friends, and brethren, beloved in the Lord) and be awakened this day, I say, observe, that when the prayers of Saints ascend before the Throne of God, with the incense of the merits and intercession of the Lord Jesus, there followeth upon it thunderings, voices, lightnings, and an earthquake,