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The greatest sinners exhorted and encouraged to come to Christ, and that now without…
The greatest sinners exhorted and encouraged to come to Christ, and that now without delaying. Also, the exceeding danger of men's deferring their repentance. : Together with a discourse about the day of judgement. And on several other subjects. / By Increase Mather teacher of a church at Boston in N. England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
printed by R.P. for Joseph Brunning i.e, 1686
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And You that are young, Remember what the Scripture saith, Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits. Exod. 22.29. I beseech, I exhort, I charge every soul of you, who are yet in your sins, that you Turn NOW ▪ Sa• not, but then I must never see merry day more. Suppose that were true▪ Is it not better to live a mournful life in this world for a short time, and then to be in fullness of joy, and to have pleasures for evermore, than to live a short life and a merry, but afterwards thy soul ⟨p. 60⟩to smoke for it in the ever-burning lake▪ I have read of a man who when he lay on his Death-bed, uttered this Expression, I have enjoyed the pleasures of Sin for a short season, and now I must be in torment for it, for more than millions of millions of ages. Oh consider of it. And remember also, that no man has any true joy or solid Comfort, in any thing until such time as he hath turned from his sins, and made his peace with God, through Jesus Christ.
And You that are young, Remember what the Scripture saith, Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits. Exod. 22.29. I besheech, I exhort, I charge every soul of you, who are yet in your sins, that you Turn NOW ▪ Sa• not, but then I must never see merry day more. Suppose that were true▪ Is it not better to live a mournful life in this world for a short time, and then to be in fulness of joy, and to have pleasures for evermore, than to live a short life and a merry, but afterwards thy soul ⟨p. 60⟩to smoke for it in the ever-burning lake▪ I have read of a man who when he lay on his Death-bed, uttered this Expression, I have enjoyed the pleasures of Sin for a short season, and now I must be in torment for it, for more than millions of millions of ages. Oh consider of it. And remember also, that no man has any true joy or solid Comfort, in any thing until such time as he hath turned from his sins, and made his peace with God, through Jesus Christ.