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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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TO DESPAIR Of the Forgiveness of SIN, Is a GREAT EVIL. › Conclusion 3: CONCLUSION III.
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I. Let every one say to his Soul as David did to his, Psal. 43. 11. O my Soul hope thou in God. There are those in this Assembly, that are in Distresses, the Lord knows how many are perplexed in their Souls, and full of fears and doubts, well but Despair not however: But rather go to God and say to him, as his People of old did, Jer. 14. 8. O thou that a•t the Hope of Israel, and the Saviour thereof in the time of Trouble, leave me not. Go and Cry to God, and yet Hope in him. Hope is a Grace exceeding necessary for a Christian, as an Helmet is for a Soldier. Eph. 6. 17. Put on the Helmet of Salvation. What is that? Hope in God and the Lord Jesus Christ, that is the Helmet of Salvation; 'tis the Head-piece. If a man be wounded in the head, it is dangerous. If a Christian lets his Hope go, his Head lies open to the ⟨p. 117⟩Wicked one, to the fiery Darts of the Wicked one. And those fiery Darts are evil Thoughts concerning God. The Devil puts it into a Christians heart that God will never have mercy on him, that God has Reprobated him. Now his Head piece is gone if he gives way to these Temptations. Hope is as necessary as an Anchor to a Vessel. Heb. 6. 18, 19. Who are fled for Refuge to the Hope set before us, which Hope is the Anchor of the Soul, sure and steadfast. What comes of a Vessel if it has no Anchor when a Storm riseth? It is broken to pieces. So the poor Souls that let their Hope go, bring themselves to confusion.
I. Let every one say to his Soul as David did to his, Psal. 43. 11. O my Soul hope thou in God. There are those in this Assembly, that are in Distresses, the Lord knows how many are perplexed in their Souls, and full of fears and doubts, well but Despair not however: But rather go to God and say to him, as his People of old did, Jer. 14. 8. O thou that a•t the Hope of Israel, and the Saviour thereof in the time of Trouble, leave me not. Go and Cry to God, and yet Hope in him. Hope is a Grace exceeding necessary for a Christian, as an Helmet is for a Souldier.