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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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USE II.
How are Believers indebted to the Lord Jesus Christ, in that he is their Saviour. And what is it he has saved them from? From going down into an horrible Pit: Job 23.10 He has delivered their Souls from going down into the Pit. Their Souls were going down into the Pit, but he delivered them from that Pit. He has Delivered them from that, which all Men and Angels could never have saved them from; Even from the wrath of God. 1 Thes. 1.10 Jesus has Delivered us from wrath to come. Therefore he has saved us from the greatest Misery that can be imagined, yea greater than can be imagined. For no heart is able to conceive what a terrible thing the Wrath of God is. How great is that goodness that Jesus Christ has purchased, and that Jesus Christ by Saving thee will bring thee to the possession ⟨p. 111⟩of? How great is that Good? Psal. 31.19 How great is thy Goodness that is laid up? How great? A Question is Propounded, but is not Answered, nor can be; How great? It is laid up; where? In heaven. How great is that Salvation, that Blessedness? None can ever say how great it is. It has not entered into the Heart of man to conceive, how great that Glory is, which Jesus Christ by being our Saviour, has obtained for us. If a Minister should spend his whole Life in Meditating on that Glory, he could not express a Million part of it. Therefore what do we owe to the Lord Jesus Christ? And how are we indebted to Him? It cost Christ dear to obtain this Salvation for us: He has obtained it in no easy way. It has cost him his own Life and Blood: