N00830:106
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Blessed HOPE, And Glorious Appearing of JESUS CHRIST. › Sermon 3 › Application 4: USE IV.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
USE IV.
Lastly Let us then give unto the Lord Jesus Christ, that which is due to the great God alone. Let us give him our very Souls: Prov. 23.26 Give me thy Heart. That is the Voice of Christ, thy Heart, thy Soul, give it to me. We may not give our Souls to any Creature. But to Christ, we may and must, and trust him with the Salvation thereof. Depend we upon him for Eternal Life to be given to our Souls· And let us love Christ more than any creature ⟨p. 71⟩in the whole world, for he is Worthy of it: He is the great God. It is impossible we should love God more then we ought to do. We•l then, we can never love Christ more then we ought to do. And if we do not love him more than any thing whatsoever, we are not worthy to be his Disciples. We should love Him with all our Heart, Soul and Might. And let us honour Christ above all: He is worthy of it, because he is the great God. We must give him that honour, that we give God the Father: For he is one with the Father. Joh 5.23 All judgment is committed to him, that so all men may Honour the Son as they Honour the Father. God would have us to do so. Let us then make the honour of Christ, the glory of Christ the great Design of our lives. What should we care to live in this sinful wo••l wo•ld for, but for this one thing▪ that we may Glorify Christ, promote his Honour and Interest in the world while we are here, which after we are Dead we cannot do. Well then, let that be our chief design, Phil. 1.21 For me to Live is Christ. That should be the reason why we should be willing to live, that we may do service for, and glorify the Name of Christ. And that man that can say, For me to Live is Christ, may also say, For me to Die shall be Gain