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A sermon occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder preached…
A sermon occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder preached at Boston in N.E. March 11th 1685[/]6. : (Together with the confession, last expressions & solemn warning of that murderer to all persons; especially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end.) / By Increase Mather, teacher of church of Christ.
Boston: printed by R.P. i.e, 1687
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3. The Lord Jesus Christ in His Gospel does graciously & earnestly INVITE all men thus to Look unto Him and be saved. That ever-glorious One whom God has exalted to be a Prince and Saviour, to give Repentance unto His Elect with Remission of sins; He hath with a matchless ⟨p. 51⟩degree of Favour and Fervour too, advised Man-kind about this matter; He hath revived a dying world with such sweet words of his mouth as these, O ye perishing Out-casts, I am a Saviour infinitely able & ready to relieve the Distresses which you are plunged into: I require you and entreat you therefore, that you don't keep […] distance from me. And for this cause it is that in Isa. 65. 1. he makes (according to the Apostolical Interpretation in Rom. 10.) this proffer even to the very Heathen (O let the blackest blindest Negro, at the further end of this Assembly count himself bound to answer such a Call) Behold me, behold me! q. d. O that you would LOOK at me for my SALVATION. We have indeed a most precious Bible in our hands [that Book of Life I see in those hands too that must dye pinioned before many days have rolled away; man do you first look downward upon that, and so look upward unto Him from whom it comes] it is a Bible indited by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and preserved by His Providence; and the very scope of this, the principal business of it, is, to come from the Third Heaven, as a Letter with thy name, & mine, & every man's on the Endorsement of it, bespeaking the believing looks of every Reader unto a saving Jesus. But there are likewise many special passages to this purpose, sparkling and glittering like so many Jewels in the Cabinet of God. It is a Rule which our ⟨p. 52⟩Lord Jesus has given about His Exhortations, […] Ma•c. 13. 37. […] What I say to one I say to Al• And will not the same square to His Invitation• also? Yes, the old loving Invitations which were more immediately given to other people do likewise call upon us upon whom the ends of the world are come. upon Thee, and thee, and thee Well, we are informed in