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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 III.
Lastly, Let us depend upon Jesus Christ alone for Salvation. What ever salvation we need or desire, we are to depend on Christ for it. Temporal Salvations we are to depend on him for. There is a dark Cloud impending over this Land, a Dark Cloud, if it break many Lives will be lost▪ Seed time and Harvest will ⟨p. 113⟩fail, and a terrible Famine come on us, and there will be no withstanding it. What shall we do then? Let us go to our Saviour Christ, and I am persuaded He will save us, notwithstanding all this Darkness that Threatens us. Mic 5.5 This Man shall be the Peace, when the Assyrian shall come in our Land. This Man, that is God as well as man: This Man whose goings are from Everlasting, shall be our Peace. We are safe enough no matter what Combinations are among our Enemies; if he who is our great Shepherd speak the word those Wolves shall not fall on his people. He is our great Shepherd, if he will but say, as, Isa. 54.17 No weapon formed against thee shall prosper. All Designs and Combinations shall be blasted, if he that is our Saviour will but speak such a word on our behalf. We are then concerned to get into Christ above all things, and to take heed that we don't offend the Lord Jesus Christ; that we don't provoke him who is our Shepherd, to give us into the hands of Wolves to devour us. Would you know how these Churches may come to be saved? Let the Churches become such as once they were, and I dare boldly declare it, Christ will save them. And therefore we are concerned to hear what Christ says to the Churches, Rev. 2.4, 5 I have something against thee. Alas for us! Christ has something against the Churches ⟨p. 114⟩in New-England; Repent and do thy first works, Remember whence thou art Fallen, or I will come quickly, and remove the Candlesticks. The Lord Jesus Christ; is Threatening to remove Candlesticks out of their places, to make his House Desolate in New-England. The way to prevent it, is to consider from whence we are falle and repent, and do our first works. Let […] Churches be as once they were, and upon all the Glory, he will Create a Defence.