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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 5
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.
2. Jesus Christ is an Everlasting Saviour. Heb 13.8 Jesus Christ yesterday, & to day, and forever ⟨p. 100⟩the fame. He was a Saviour Yesterday, He is a Saviour To Day, He will be a Saviour For-Ever. As long as any of the Elect of God do stand in need of salvation, He will be a saviour unto them. He is a Saviour unto his People, not in one Age of the world, but in all Ages thereof. No man was ever saved since the world began, nor ever shall there be, but Jesus Christ must be his Saviour. He has saved not only New-Testament believers, but Old-Testament believers, they also were saved by him. Heb. 11.40 They were not made perfect without us. The Old Testament believers did not obtain the Pardon of their sin, and the salvation of their souls in any other way, but what we have done; both we and they have obtained salvation through Jesus Christ. Other saviours are only for one Age, in the Age wherein they lived, only Temporal Saviours; as was said concerning the Priests, Heb. 7.23 They were not suffered to continue by reason of Death. But says the Apostle, He is a Priest for ever; and he ever lives to make Intercession for those that come unto him. He is able to save unto the uttermost. And the salvation that Christ is the Author of, it is an Everlasting Salvation. Heb. 5.9 He is the Author of Eternal Salvation: He saves from Everlasting Misery; He procures for those that are his, ⟨p. 101⟩Everlasting Blessedness, He then is an Everlasting Saviour.
2. Iesus Christ is an Everlasting Saviour. Heb 13.8 Iesus Christ yesterday, & to day, and forever ⟨p. 100⟩the fame. He was a Saviour Yesterd•y, He is a Saviour To Day, He will be a Saviour For-Ever. As long as any of the Elect of God do stand in need of salvation, He will be a saviour unto them. He is a Saviour unto his People, not in one Age of the world, but in all Ages thereof. No man was ever saved since the world began, nor ever shall there be, but Jesus Christ must be his Saviour. He has saved not only New-Testament believers, but Old-Testament blievers, they also were saved by him.