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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]
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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.
4. Despair has Evil Effects. As it proceeds from Evil Causes, so it produces Evil Effects. There are sad Consequen•es of it.
1. It does cause Men to be like Satan: Fallen Men to be like the fallen Angels. The Devil is the most Despairing Spirit that ever was […] He knows that he shall be Damned at the great Day. There is a Scripture which the Devil and all his Angels cannot hear, nor read, nor think or without horror and trembling, namely that which is expressive of the Sentence which the son of God will pass on all the Reprobate would at the Last day, Mat. 25. 41 Christ will then say, […] into Everlasting Fire, Prepared for the Devil and his Angels. The Devil and all his Angels know most certainly, that they must endure Ever lasting Fire after the great Day […]. There was a company of Devils that fell a roaring when Christ came near them, and said, Mat. 8. 29 Art thou come to […] before the time? They know that there is a time when they shall be in ⟨p. 103⟩