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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.
This I do believe is the true scope of that place. He that is otherwise minded, let him abound in his own sense.
This I do believe is the true scope of that place. He that is otherwise minded, let him abound in his own sence.
4. Others think, that by (i)all Israel, is meant the body of the Israelitish Nation. And that seemeth to be the genuine interpretation of the words; for in other Scriptures, all is used to signify many, Mat. 3.5. It is said, That all Judea was baptized by John, confessing their sins. Doubtless there were some in Judea, that neither confessed their s•ns, nor were baptized by John, therefore all noteth a multitudinous number: And so is All to be taken, Isa. 66.23. Joel 2.28. 1 Cor. 15.22. and in many other Scriptures. So when it is said, All (k)Israel shall be saved, h. e. very many Israelites shall be saved. Yea, all here noteth, not only many, but most; it signifieth not only a Majority, but a very full and large Generality. Hence the same thing is called their fullness, Rom. 11.12. Now as when the fullness of the Gentiles shall be brought in, that must not be extended to every particular person, nor yet to a few only, but to the body of Gentile Nations, whom that prophecy doth concern; so may we say concerning this fullness of Israel. Moreover, such as ⟨p. 10⟩