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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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Every Man in the WORLD, Is going into ETERNITY › Proposition 2: PROPOSITION II.
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PROPOSITION II.
That every Man in the world is going out of this into another World. ⟨p. 133⟩Men must not b• in this world always As Christ said to his Disciples, Mat. 26. 11. Me you have not always. Even so, Men are not to be in the world always; no, nor long neither. Hence David said, 1 Chron. 29. 15. Our Days on Earth are as a shadow, & there is […] abiding. No abiding here on the Earth. Zech. 1. 5. Your Fathers where are they? And the Prophets, do they live for ever? The Prophets live in Heaven for ever, but neither they nor any else shall live on the Earth forever. Death will put an end to Time and then comes Eternity. That is what every man is hastening unto, Psal. 89. 48. What man is be that lives, & shall not see Death? There is not such a man in the world; not a living man but he shall see death. This world is like a Stage, where men appear for a while, and then go off to make way for another to succeed them, Eccl. 1. 4. ⟨p. 134⟩One Generation goes away & another comes. Or, it is like a passing Room, through which we go, but do not set down to rest in. So as to this world, here is not our rest, here is not the place for us to abide in; but in another room of the Universe, and not on this Earth. Men are departing hence: Simeon speaks of his Departure; and Paul says, The time of his Departure was at hand. Every man is going to the Grave, as to his Body, Eccl. 9. 10. There is no work in the Grave whither thou goest. Every man is going, and whither is he going? He is going into the Grave. And although' men as to their Bodies shall not be always there, nevertheless, there they must be for a long time; especially such as dyed in the first Ages of the world, Ecclpunc; 12. 5. The Grave is said to be a long home. Man goes to his long home; and that is the House which is appointed […] all