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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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3. Others (d)there are, that by all Israel understand, all and every one of the natural posterity of Jacob. As if the Apostle's meaning were, that every particular person amongst the children of Israel should partake of this salvation; but in that there is a mistake also. For when this salvation shall take place, which is here spoken of, there will be divers particular persons amongst the Israelites that will stand it out against the call of God, for which they shall be destroyed, according to that Text,, (f)Act. 3.23. We may suppose, that some of the Jews will adhere obstinately to their old antiquated Ceremonies, ⟨p. 8⟩for which the Lord will be dreadfully provoked to cut them off. So some (e)interpret, Isa. 66.3, 4. Consider also, Eze. 20.37, 38. And many have alleged Dan. 12.2. to confirm this; which Scripture they do therefore interpret allegorically, as if the meaning of the place were, that after Zion is raised out of the dust of affliction, and brought out of that grave of sorrow and misery which […] present the Jews are in, many of them shall perish for their iniquity. And indeed the arguments that are brought by those which favour this allegorical interpretation, (h)are of force against them that restrain the words to intend nothing but the ultimate resurrection of the last judgment. Nevertheless, in as much as the Church of the Jews in old time built her faith of the resurrection upon that very Text principally, and in as much as a literal interpretation of Scripture ought never to be rejected for an allegorical one, except necessity compel thereunto, I am slow to embrace a metaphorical sense of that Scripture,