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A sermon, occasioned
A sermon, occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder, preached at Boston in N.E., March 11th, 1685/6 (together with the confession, last expressions, & solemn warning of the murderer to all persons, especially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end) / by Increase Mather ...
Boston: printed by R.P., 1687
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The CALL of the GOSPEL, unto All the Ends of the Earth; Apply'd esp… › Part
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2. SALVATION will most undoubtedly be the Fruit of a Believer's Looking unto the Lord Jesus Christ. The great God, who once said unto upright man, Obey and live, now saith unto lapsed man, Believe & be saved; and truly an Exceeding great multitude, whom no man can number, have bin happy witnesses to the Fulfilment of it. It is that which our Lord has ordered to be proclaimed unto every creature, I mean (as the Hebrews do by that Phrase) unto every man in the world. Marc. 16. 16. He that believeth shall [be saved.] And when a convinced Jailer was solicitous about his everlasting Weal, the Messengers of heaven gave him this Testimony (which surely the convinced Prisoner that I have before me, may very reasonably look upon himself as concerned in) Act. 16. 31. Believe on the Lord. Jesus Christ, and thou shalt [be saved.] Thus also it is represented as the Property & the Privilege of true Believers, in Heb, 10. 39. We are of them that believe unto the saving of the soul. Verily, a man does no sooner look unto Jesus Christ in away of Believing, than a Sentence of Salvation is passed upon him, and all the Promises, yea and all the Attributes of the Eternal Jehovah are engaged for the execution of it.
2. SALVATION will most undoubledly be the Fruit of a Believer's Looking unto the Lord Jesus Christ. The great God, who once said unto upright man, Obey and live, now saith unto lapsed man, Believe & be saved; and truly an Exceeding great multitude, whom no man can number, have bin happy witnesses to the Fulfilment of it. It is that which our Lord has ordered to be proclaimed unto every creature, I mean (as the Hebrews do by that Phrase) unto every man in the world. Marc. 16. 16. He that believeth shall [be saved.] And when a convinced Jayler was solicitous about his everlasting Weal, the Messengers of heaven gave him this Testimony (which surely the convinced Prisoner that I have before me, may very reasonably look upon himself as concerned in) Act. 16. 31. Believe on the Lord. Jesus Christ, and thou shalt [be saved.] Thus also it is represented as the Property & the Priviledge of true Believers, in Heb, 10. 39. We are of them that believe unto the saving of the soul. Verily, a man does no sooner look unto Jesus Christ in away of Beleeving, than a Sentence of Salvation is passed upon him, and all the Promises, yea and all the Attributes of the Eternal Jehovah are engaged for the execution of it.