N00341:81
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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1. In that men thereby go from God the Chief Good. That which leads men from God the chief Good must needs be an evil way. Now is this true of Sin. Men by Sin turn from God; and the more they sin the ⟨p. 40⟩further do they go from God. Jer. 2.5. They are gone far from me. A sinner has bin doing nothing else but departing from God all his days; so that there is an infinite distance between God & him. Eph. 2.13. You were sometimes far off. h. e. far off from God, and from Heaven. And the longer a man liveth in sin, the greater is the separation between God and his soul. For his back is turned upon God. Jer. 32.33. They have turned to me the back and not the face. And therefore the longer a sinner shall go on in his present way, the further will he be from God and from Heaven, •nd from all Happiness. Sin then is an evil Way. It appears to be so,
1. In that men thereby go from God the Chief Good. That which leads men from God the chief Good must needs be an evil way. Now is this true of Sin. Men by Sin turn from God; and the more they sin the ⟨p. 40⟩further doe they goe from God. Ier. 2.5. They are gone farr from me. A sinner has bin doing nothing else but departing from God all his dayes; so that there is an infinite distance between God & him. Eph. 2.13. You were sometimes farr off. h. e. farr off from God, and from Heaven. And the longer a man liveth in sin, the greater is the separation between God and his soul. For his back is turned upon God. Ier. 32.33. They have turned to me the back and not the face. And therefore the longer a sinner shall goe on in his present way, the further will he be from God and from Heaven, nd from all Happiness. Sin then is an evil Way. It appears to be so,