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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.
the ⟨image ?⟩drying up of the waters of Euphrates, i. e. the great abatement of the Turkish power. God now removeth this hindrance out of the way of the Kings of the East, who at present have two great impediments obstructing their conversion. 1. The Idolatry of Rome. 2. The power and prosperity of the Turk, the potent and professed enemy of Christianity. And though the first of these shall be removed in the ruin of Rome by the pouring out of the fifth vial upon the seat of the Beast, yet the second impediment lieth still in the way, till by the sixth vial the waters of the great River are made fordable; and drained so low, that the Jews may be able to wade through them to join with the Gentiles, to the utter overthrow both of Turk and Pope. How the power of the Turk shall be thus lessened, whether by intestine commotions, or by wars from abroad, or by the prevailing of the Gospel in his Dominions upon the fall of Rome, I know not; but it is certain, that the waters of Euphrates shall be dried up, and the way of the Kings of the East prepared; besides which, they must be dried up also to make way for the Jews to repossess their own Land. (l)For God will bring again the captivity of his people Israel, and they shall build the w•st Cities, and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; And I will plant them (saith the Lord) upon their Land, and they shall no more be pulled upon of their land which I have given them. And this preparing the way of these Kings, is prophesied of under the expression of drying up great waters, as when ⟨image ?⟩the Lord saith, (m)He will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with his mighty wind will he shake his hand over the River, and smite it in the seven streams, and make men to go over dry-shod; and there shall be an high way for the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria, like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. When the Lord delivered Israel out of the Land of Egypt, he dried the Red sea to prepare their way through the Wilderness into Canaan; And when he delivered them out of Babylon, observe what is said again;