N00341:85
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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God promiseth the Sinner his life if he will return. He saith, turn your selves and live you. And if the wicked be warned from his wicked way, he shall save his life. Ezek. 3.18. and 18.32. Heaven is promised to returning sinners. Thus in my Text, Turn every one from his evil way — and dwell in the land for ever and ever. There's something Spiritual ultimately intended in those words▪ viz. that every one that truly repents of sin shall dwell in Heaven for evermore, of which dwelling in the land of Canaan was a Figure. And the Word of God denounceth no less than Eternal Death to every Sinner that will not turn. Ezek. 33.11. Say unto them, as I live saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of th• wicked: but that the wicked should turn from his way and live. Turn you, turn you from ⟨p. 45⟩[…] evil ways for why will you dy•, O house of Israel. This is the great voice of God in his word to every Sinner, the great design of the Scriptures both in the old and new Testament is to declare this, that the Sinner who shall turn from all his Sins shall live, but the Sinner that will not turn from all his Sins shall dye for ever. Thus saith God to every soul of of man, unto whom his Word cometh, thou must either turn from thy evil way, or burn for ever in the fire that shall never be quenched.
God promiseth the Sinner his life if he will return. He saith, turn your selves and live you. And if the wicked be warned from his wicked way, he shall save his life. Ezek. 3.18. and 18.32. Heaven is promised to returning sinners. Thus in my Text, Turn every one from his evil way — and dwell in the land for ever and ever. There's something Spiritual ultimately intended in those words▪ viz. that every one that truly repents of sin shall dwell in Heaven for evermore, of which dwelling in the land of Cnaan was a Figure. And the Word of God denounceth no less than Eternal Death to every Sinner that will not turn.