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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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John 6.37. —And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.
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Consider 3. They that will not come to Christ now when they may, shall not come to him another day tho' they would. O that men who live under the Gospel would remember and lay to heart, what the Lord Jesus has spoken, Prov. 1.24. &c. Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded, but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof; I will also laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh, when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind: when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me but I will not answer, they shall seek me early but they shall not find me. Now sinner, thou art fairly offered, but thou shalt not always have Christ preached to thee, nor his Spirit to strive with thee always. Now he opens the doors of his House and bids you come in; but hereafter the doors of his House will be shut • and then sinners will cry unto him, Lord, Lord open to us; but He will say, you come too late now, you cry too late: had you come and cried thus sooner, you might have come in; but now away with you, none of ⟨p. 25⟩you that were invited, but slighted the Calls of the Gospel shall taste of my Supper. Luk· 13.29. At the day of Judgment those two words, Come, and Go, shall divide all the world. As for such as did▪ come to Christ by Faith whilst they were in this World, Christ will say to them at the last Day, Come you blessed, come, and be with me in Heaven for ever; but as for them that did not come to Christ whilst they were living on the earth; He will say to them, go, depart from me, out of my sight for ever, go and suffer with that Devil whom you chose to serve, rather than to obey the Gospel and to become the servants of Jesus Christ.
Consider 3. They that will not come to Christ now when they may, shall not come to him another day tho' they would. O that men who live under the Gospel would remember and lay to heart, what the Lord Jesus has spoken, Prov. 1.24. &c. Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded, but ye have set at nought all my counsil, and would none of my reproof; I will also laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh, when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind: when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me but I will not answer, they shall seek me early but they shall not find me. Now sinner, thou art fairly offerd, but thou shalt not alwayes have Christ preached to thee, nor his Spirit to strive with thee alwayes. Now he opns the doors of his House and bids you come in; but hereafter the doors of his House will be shutt and then sinners will cry unto him, Lord, Lord open to us; but He will say, you come too late now, you cry too late: had you come and cryed thus sooner, you might have come in; but now away with you, none of