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Some important truths concerning conversion, and the improving seasons of grace; as also about…
Some important truths concerning conversion, and the improving seasons of grace; as also about prayer in families, and in secret: delivered in several sermons; / by Increase Mather.
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for John Griffin, 1684
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 ashamed to own God, and the Lord Jesus Christ! dost thou not know that that's 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 gain 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 ⟨p. 124⟩generation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in 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 ashamed to own God, and the Lord Jesus Christ! dost thou not know that that's 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 gain 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 ⟨p. 124⟩generation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in 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?
Obj. 3. I would pray in my Family, but I cannot, I have not the gift of utterance and expression?