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Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness
Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness: wherein several important duties, are urged, and the evil of divers common sins, is evinced; delivered in sundry sermons. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Samuel Green upon assignment of Samuel Sewall, 1682
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.
Use 2. As you love your Souls, or as you desire Salvation, let finding time, be praying time. Do but consider two things.
1. As yet you have a Finding time. Be that known to every Soul before the Lord this day? Say Not; I would pray, but I doubt my time to find the Lord is past and gone As yet thou hast […] day of grace. Behold now is an accepted Time, •ow is a day of Salvation. Thy body is on this side the Grave, and thy soul on this side Hell; therefore tis possible thou mayest find the Lord. I have somewhere read of a child that was in danger of being devoured by a wild Beast; but he cried to some that were near to come in and rescue him, saying Help! help! I am yet alive, I am yet alive; so I say to thee, help for thy soul is not too late, for thou art yet alive; and therefore pray & cry to God for help, as one that doth believe that thou hast an eternal life, & an immortal soul lying at the stake. God is once more offering Salvation to thee. To you that hear the Gospel this day, is the word of Salvation sent, Act. 13.26.
1. As yet you have a Finding time. Be that known to every Soul before the Lord this day? Say Not; I would pray, but I doubt my time to find the Lord is past and gone As yet thou hast 〈…〉 day of grace. Behold now is an accepted Time, •ow is a day of Salvation. Thy body is on this side the Grave, and thy soul on this side Hell; therefore tis possible thou mayest find the Lord. I have somewhere read of a childe that was in danger of being devoured by a wild Beast; but he cried to some that were near to come in and rescue him, saying Help! help! I am yet alive, I am yet alive; so I say to thee, help for thy soul is not too late, for thou art yet alive; and therefore pray & cry to God for help, as one that doth believe that thou hast an eternal life, & an immortal soul lying at the stake. God is once more offering Salvation to thee. To you that hear the Gospel this day, is the word of Salvation sent,