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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.
Israel is often used in Scripture as significant of both these, both the ten Tribes, and the two Tribes conjoined, Psal. 114.1. Hos. 11.1. And thus we may understand Israel here in my Text. Though the two Tribes be principally intended, yet I would not interpret the words exclusively, as to the other ten Tribes, partly because it is a good rule in interpreting the Scripture, to give it the largest sense the words will bear, and partly because the ten Tribes shall be saved at last as well as the two Tribes.
Israel is often used in Scripture as significant of both these, both the ten Tribes, and the two Tribes conjoyned, Psal. 114.1. Hos. 11.1. And thus we may understand Israel here in my Text. Though the two Tribes be principally intended, yet I would not interpret the words exclusively, as to the other ten Tribes, partly because it is a good rule in interpreting the Scripture, to give it the largest sence the words will bear, and partly because the ten Tribes shall be saved at last as well as the two Tribes.
Q. 2. What is meant by all Israel? Answ. There are divers interpretations which have been given (c)thereof. For, 1. Some think, that by all Israel is meant some Few of all Israel. But that cannot be the meaning of the words, for the note of universality, All Israel, will not bear such a particular restrained interpretation. That showeth the Proposition to be an universal, and not a particular Axiom. Surely, the Scripture is not wont to use ⟨p. 6⟩such Akurologies, harsh improprieties of speech, as to say all, when not all but a few only are intended. Besides, the Apostle opposeth that salvation of all Israel, which he predicts as future in the words of my Text, unto the salvation of a remnant, which at that present time when he wrote this Epistle to the Romans was accomplished, v. 5. 2. Others think, that by all