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Soul-saving Gospel truths. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showedSoul-saving Gospel truths. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is shewed
Soul-saving Gospel truths. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showed: I. The unreasonableness of those excuses which men make for their delaying to come to the Lord Jesus for salvation. II. That for men to despair of the forgiveness of their sins because they have been great, is a great evil. III. That every man in the world is going into eternity. / By Increase Mather. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]Soul-saving Gospel truths. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is shewed: I. The unreasonableness of those excuses which men make for their delaying to come to the Lord Jesus for salvation. II. That for men to despair of the forgiveness of their sins because they have been great, is a great evil. III. That every man in the world is going into eternity. / By Increase Mather. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
Boston : Sold by Eleazer Phillips., 1703
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1. They that are afraid lest they have committed the Sin against the Holy Ghost, it is certain they never did commit it. If they had they would never be troubled on that account: For it would be matter of pleasure to them; as it is with the Devil: All manner of sin is pleasant to ⟨p. 101⟩him. The Devil is not troubled that he has been guilty of any one sin. So they that have committed the Sin against the Holy Ghost are not sorry for what they have done. And I may venture to say,
1. They that are afraid lest they have committed the Sin against the Holy Ghost, it is certain they never did commit it. If they had they would never be troubled on that acount: For it would be matter of pleasure to them; as it is with the Devil: All manner of sin is pleasant to ⟨p. 101⟩him. The Devil is not troubled that he has been guilty of any one sin. So they that have committed the Sin against the Holy Ghost are not sorry for what they have done. And I may venture to say,
2. That there is not one here in this Assembly that has been guilty of that Sin. For if you had, you would not be here attending on the Word of God. They that commit that sin do as, Heb. 10. 25 Forsake the assembly of the Saints. They then that do attend the Assemblies of Gods People, that prize his Ordinances, that hear the Word of his Gospel with delight, have not been left to that sin. So then that is a groundless Fear.