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…

2. Israel is sometimes put for those that did ⟨p. 4⟩remain of Jacob's posterity, after that the ten Tribes were by the Assyrians carried into perpetual captivity. The very same persons which are sometimes called Jews, are at other times called Israelites, Mat. 10.5, 6. Go not into the way of the Gentiles, nor into any City of the Samaritans, but unto the lost Sheep of the house of Israel. Now, the house of Israel there, doth note those that were the posterity, not so much of the Assyrian, as of the Babylonian captivity. And, Act. 2. They which are called men of Judea, verse 14. are called men of Israel, verse 22. So Rom. 9. they who are called Jews, verse 24. are called Israel, verse 31. Hence Paul, that was a Jew of the Tribe of Benjamin, is also said to be an Israelite, Rom. 11.1. 2 Cor. 11.22. Phil. 3.5. Consider also, Luk. 1.16. And the reason why the Jews •re called Israelites is: 1. Because that is the more ancient and honourable name. Israel is a name of power and principality; 2. Because there were many particular persons belonging to the ten Tribes who lived in the Land of Judea. See 2 Chron. 10, 17. & 11.3. When Jeroboam advanced h•s superstitious worship, there were many out of all the ten Tribes who joined themselves with those that were looked upon as Jews, in contradistinction to Israelites, 2 Chron. 11.13, 14, 16. And afterwards, in Asa his time, there was an abundance of Israelites that fell from Jeroboam to the house of David, Chap. 15. verse 9. And after that, in Hezekiahs time, there were more Israelites that joined themselves unto the house of Judah, upon a godly letter which Hezekiah wrote to them to that purpose, Chap. 30. verse 6, 10, 11. And after all this, even when the seventy years of the Babylonian