N00946:134
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. They enquire concerning the Signs of his coming, viz. His Providential ⟨p. 127⟩coming to take vengeance on the Jewish Nation? The Answer to that is from the Twenty-fourth Verse of the former to the Thirty-first of this Chapter.
2. They enquire concerning the Signs of his coming, viz. His Providential ⟨p. 127⟩coming to take vengeance on the Jenish Nation? The Answer to that is from the Twenty-fourth Verse of the former to the Thirty-first of this Chapter.
3. They enquire when shall be the End of the World? That end of the world which shall be at the Universal Judgment? •o that enquiry Christ answers from the Thirty-first Verse of this Chapter to the end of it. In which we have an illustrious. Description of the Great Day of Judgment; alluding to the Supreme Court of Judicature among the Jews, from which there was no appeal The Sanhedrim which was at first instituted by Divine direction, did consist of Seventy Judges, besides Moses who was the chief. These Judges sat in the form of a Semicircle. The President sat in the middle; next on his right hand was the Vice-President, whom the Jews […], Ah Beth Din, The Father of ⟨p. 128⟩the House of Judgment. This gives light to those words which […] has written concerning the Day of Judgment, where he says that Thrones, that is Seats of Judicature were pitched down. And he speaks of the Ancient of Days. This also helps to understand that Scripture. Mat. 26. 64. where Christ says, That they should see the Son of Man standing at the Right hand of Power; Alluding to that Supreme Court of Judicature among the Jews. He that was in Power and Dignity next to the President, sat at his right hand. And there were two Clerks in that Court; one of them did stand at the right hand of the Judge, and he did write down the Votes for Absolution: The other stood at his left hand, & wrote down the Votes for Condemnation. Thus did God order it to be, that there might be a lively Representation of the Day of Judgment; when all mn