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The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus…
The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Timothy Green for Nicholas Boone, 1701
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The Blessed HOPE, And Glorious Appearing of JESUS CHRIST. › Sermon 3 › Application 3: USE III.
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USE III.
If Jesus Christ is the great God, then Woe and ⟨p. 68⟩ten Thousand Woes for ever, shall be to them that refuse the Lord Jesus Christ. Heb. 12.25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh, for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on Earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from Heaven, whose Voice then shook the Earth. It is Christ whose Voice shook the Earth. Moses tells us, that when the Lord came down from Heaven on Mount Sinai, the Mount quaked exceedingly; it was the Voice of the Son of God that made that Mountain to quake exceedingly. And shall not sinful Creatures quake before him, and be afraid to Disobey him? Who can stand before him who is the great God, when once he is Angry? Rev· 6.16, 17 There we may see how the great Ones, the Captains, the Mighty men Cried to the Rocks to fall on them; O ye Mountains cover us from the Face of the Lamb, for the great Day of his Wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand? Woe to the hardness and blindness of the Hearts of men, who are less afraid of the great God than the Devils themselves are. The Scripture says, that the Devils believe and tremble. They believe that there is one God, and they tremble before him. They believe that Christ is the great God, and they tremble before him. The Gospel informs us how the Devils Prayed, and Begged that he would not cause them to be Tormented ⟨p. 69⟩before their time. And what shall men that call themselves Christians, be worse than the Devils? It may be there are here some this Day, that never Prayed to Christ, that never said to him, Lord! let not me go down into Hell, into the place of Torment!