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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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2. This salvation implieth deliverance from spiritual bondage and misery. Hence in the Text it is expressed by turning away ungodliness. And salvation is very often used in the Scripture in that sense, viz. for deliverance from spiritual bondages, Mat. 1.24. Luke 1.71, 74, 77. And therefore when the Apostle saith, That all Israel shall be saved, this also is part of his meaning; That the whole nation of the Jews shall be saved from the blindness of their minds, saved from the hardness of their hearts, saved from the unbelief of their souls, saved from that curse and wrath of God which lieth upon them, and which hath remained upon many of them, for more than 2000 and divers hundreds of years.
2. This salvatio• implyeth deliverance from spiritual bondage and misery. Hence in the Text it is expressed by turning away ungodliness. And salvation is very often used in the Scripture in that sence, viz. for deliverance from spiritual bondages, Mat. 1.24. Luke 1.71, 74, 77. And therefore when the Apostle saith, That all Israel shall be saved, this also is part of his meaning; That the whole nation of the Iews shall be saved from the blindness of their minds, saved from the hardness of their hearts, saved from the unbelief of their souls, saved from that curse and wrath of God which lyeth upon them, and which hath remained upon many of them, for more than 2000 and divers hundreds of years.
2. There is the term unto which this salvation shall be, viz. unto a glorious state of happiness. And this is, 1. Temporal. The Jews who have been trampled upon by all Nations, shall shortly become the most glorious Nation in the whole world, and all other Nations shall have them in great esteem and honour,