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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 › Application 3: USE III
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USE III
1. Let Sinners be Exhorted to make sure of an Hope of Blessedness that will not fail them. Other hopes will fail If men make ⟨p. 46⟩Gold their hope, that will fail them. If they make Creatures and worldly Comforts their hopes, they will also fail them; and if their hopes of Heaven fail them too, what a Condition will they be in? Know that Now, now is the time to make sure of a well-grounded hope To him that is joined to the Living there is Hope. Yea, there is hope that he may make sure of an Interest in Christ, Repe•t of Sin, and become a New Creature, and so go to Heaven when he Dies. But when Life is gone, all hope is gone with it: Isa 38.18 They that go down into the Pit, cannot hope for thy Truth O think of it, Poor Sinful Creature; thou wilt ere long be gone down into the Pit: If thou make not sure that thy Hope of Blessedness shall not fail before that Day thou art lost forever. Wherefore, make sure of your Effectual Calling, Eph. 4.4 Even as you are Called in one hope of your calling. If you be Effectually Called, then may you Hope for Eternal Life, and Glory in another World.
1. Let Sinners be Exhorted to make sure of an Hope of Blessedness that will not fail them. Other hopes will fail If men make ⟨p. 46⟩Gold their hope, that will fail them. If they make Creatures and worldly Comforts their hopes, they will also fail them; and if their hopes of Heaven fail them too, what a Condition will they be in? Know that Now, now is the time to make sure of a well-grounded hope To him that is joyned to the Living there is Hope. Yea, there is hope that he may make sure of an Interest in Christ, Repe•t of Sin, and become a New Creature, and so go to Heaven when he Dies. But when Life is gone, all hope is gone with it: Isa 38.18 They that go down into the Pit, cannot hope for thy Truth O think of it, Poor Sinful Creature; thou wilt ere long be gone down into the Pit: If thou make not sure that thy Hope of Blessedness shall not fail before that Day thou art lost foever. Wherefore, make sure of your Effectual Calling,