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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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Nothing is better, nothing is so good as to live a life of everlasting Communion with God and with Jesus Christ. One well saith, that The Saints in glory are always experienting, and yet ever learning this Truth to Eternity.
Nothing is better, nothing is so good as to live a life of everlasting Communion with God and with Jesus Christ. One well saith, that The Saints in glory are alwayes experienting, and yet ever learning this Truth to Eternity.
USE. 1. It is matter of heart-bleeding Lam•utation, that there are so few who draw near to God. Alas, how many are there that content themselves to live in a state of estrangement from God! They are Aliens to the Life of God, yea to a life of Communion with Him. The natural man knoweth not what it is to have Communion with God: All our Communion with God in this World is in some Ordinance or other, either Prayer, or Meditation, or Hearing the Word, or Reading, or in some other Ordinance, but are not these neglected? Church-Fellowship and the Lord's Supper are Divine institutions▪ It is lamentable to consider that so many of the rising Generation, do neither prize nor prepare themselves for such enjoyments, they sin grievously against the hope of their Fathers. For our Fathers came into this Wilderness for no other end, but only that so they might ⟨p. 144⟩build a Sanctuary for the Name of God, and enjoy Communion with Him therein. Now that their Children after them should so many of them be careless about things of this Nature, is a Lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation. And are there not more than a few, that live in the neglect of prayer? Ah ungodly souls! The Scripture saith, every one that is godly shall pray. Psal. 32.6. He then that liveth without prayer, has no godliness, no grace in his soul. Are there not some that don't so much as pray in their Families? Men may make excuses for such neglects if they will, but there is a Scripture which falls upon them like a Thunderbolt of Death, and they cannot escape it, I mean that in