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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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Object. 2. Another says. You don't know what a Sinner I have bin; I am a great Sinner, and an old sinner, an old Swearer, and old in Adulteries; and shall I dare to come to the Holy Son of God, would you have such a one as I to go to Christ?
Object. 2. Another sayes. You don't know what a Sinner I have bin; I am a great Sinner, and an old sinner, an old Swearer, and old in Adulteries; and shall I dare to come to the Holy Son of God, would you have such a one as I to goe to Christ?
Answ. Yes, Thou hast so much the more need to come to Christ. If a man should say, I am very sick, and therefore I am afraid to go to the Physician, what a strange Saying were that! It is just so when any one shall say▪ I have been a grievous sinner, therefore I am […] to go to Jesus Christ. He, and He […] can recover thy guilty dying soul. If thou […] indeed go to him with a desire to be his servant, He'll accept of thee, notwithstanding thy many and great sins; Such is his gracious nature as that he will forgive all the wrongs thou hast done to him. Tho thou hast despidespised ⟨p. 28⟩him, tho thou hast killed him by thy sins, yet he will, accept of thee. Remember how Joseph received his Brethren when they came to him humbly confessing the wrong they had done him, and begging for pardon, he comforted them and spake kindly to them Gen. 50.4. So will Christ do much more; for He came into the world to save the chief of Sinners. 1. Tim. 1.15. Who did the Lord Jesus first appear to after his Resurrection? was it not to Mary Magdalen, out of whom he cast seven Devils, and more Devils out of her Soul than out of her Body? As great sinners as thou hast been, when they have come to Christ, he would in no wise cast them out. What think you of the Woman of Samaria who had lived in Adultery, but when she came to Christ with a penitent heart He gave her living Water. What do ye think of the Woman spoken of