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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.
Ans. What a shamed to own God, and the Lord Jesus Christ I dost thou not know that that the way for a man to lose his Soul for ever? see else what the Lord Jesus hath spoken, Mark 8• 3 last verses. what shall it profit a man if he again the Whole world and lose his own Soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his Soul: whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generations, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in ⟨p. 72⟩the glory of his Father, with the Holy Angels. If thou art ashamed of prayer, thou art ashamed to own the ways of Christ: and then what will become of thy precious and immortal Soul?
Ans. What a shamed to own God, and the Lord Jesus Christ I dost thou not know that that the way for a man to lose his Soul for ever? see else what the Lord Jesus hath spoken, Mark 8• 3 last verses. what shall it profit a man if he again the Whole world and lose his own Soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his Soul: whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generations, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in ⟨p. 72⟩the glory of his Father, with the Holy Angels. If thou art ashamed of prayer, thou art ashamed to own the wayes of Christ: and then what will become of thy precious and immortal Soul?
Object. 3. I would pray in my Family, but I cannot, I have not the gift of utterance and expression?