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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Blessed HOPE, And Glorious Appearing of JESUS CHRIST. › Sermon 1
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.
1 They hope for Salvation at the Appearing of the Great God our Saviour Jesus Christ. When He appears He will appear to them as a Saviour. ⟨p. 11⟩And all that Good, all that Blessedness which is contained in this Comprehensive word, Salvation is that they hope for, 1 Thes. 5.8. Putting on the Breastplate of Faith, and Love, and for an helmet, the hope of Salvation. There is Salvation in respect of Deliverance from outward Evils. This Believers hope for, Isa. 60.20. The days of thy mourning shall be ended. And there is Salvation in respect of Deliverance from Spiritual & from Eternal Evils. Sin is a Spiritual evil; the temptations of Satan are spiritual evils; & the Torments of Hell are Eternal Miseries. There is the Worm that Dyes […] & the Fire that never shall be Quenched. Believers hope for deliverance from this, Isa. 45.17. Israel shall be Saved in the Lord with an Everlasting Salvation. Deliverance from Everlasting Misery, is an Everlasting Salvation. And this is that which Believers expect, at the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Salvation of them all, will not be perfected till then, Heb. 9.28. He shall appear the Second time without Sin unto Salvation. The Redemption of the Children of Israel out of Egypt, was a Type of this Salvation. Moses then said to them, (as in the 14. Exod. 1•) The Egyptians which you have seen this day, you shall see them again no more for eve•. So when Christ shall Appear, those evils that have been Afflictive to His People, they shall see them no more for ever. Neither Temporal Evils, as Hunger, ⟨p. 12⟩Thirst, no more Pain, no more Crying, nor any Spiritual Evils, neither Sin nor the Temptations of Satan, shall molest them any more for ever. Now then this will be a Blessed Day, and therefore the hope of it is a Blessed Hope.