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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 2
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4thly. and Lastly, This Looking for, does imply a Preparing for the Blessed Appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ. As one that looks for another to come, especially if it be a Great person, he will make suitable preparation for him So they that look for the Appearing of the Great GOD our Saviour Jesus Christ, will make a suitable preparation. They are a People ready, a People prepared for the Lords coming. Mark 13.33 Watch and Pray for you, know not when the time is. You know not when the Lord will appear, therefore you must be always upon your Watch, and always Praying, and live a life of Prayer, always Watch ⟨p. 32⟩against those things that would unfit you for the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus for the Second thing, pass we to the Third.
4thly. and Lastly, This Looking for, does imply a Preparing for the Blessed Appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ. As one that looks for another to come, especially if it be a Great person, he will make suitable preparation for him So they that look for the Appearing of the Great GOD our Saviour Jesus Christ, will make a suitable preparation. They are a People ready, a People prepared for the Lords coming. Mark 13.33 Watch and Pray for you, know not when the time is. You know not when the Lord will appear, therefore you must be alwayes upon your Watch, and alwayes Praying, and live a life of Prayer, alwayes Watch ⟨p. 32⟩against those things that would unfit you for the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus for the Second thing, pass we to the Third.
3. Enqui. What Reason have Believers to look for the Blessed Hope?