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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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Every Man in the WORLD, Is going into ETERNITY › Proposition 3: PROPOSITION III.
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PROPOSITION III.
That World that men go into after they are out of this world, it is an Eternal World. That is mentioned in the Scripture as the difference between this present visible world, and that which is invisible, 2 Cor. 4. 18. The things which are seen are Temporal, but the things which are not seen are Eternal. So this world which our mortal Eyes see, it is a a Temporal world; but as to the unseen world it is an Eternal world. This Earthly world and all things ⟨p. 137⟩in it, are of a perishing nature, and shall be dissolved, 2 Pet. 3. 10, 11. The Earth & the works that are therein shall be burnt up, all these things shall be dissolved. But the other world is not dissolved but abides to Eternity: When men are there, they are fixed down world without end. Therefore in the Parable, in Luk, 16. when Dives said to Abraham, Send Lazarus that he might dip his finger in water & cool my Tongue, the answer was, There is a great Gulf fixed between us, that they that would pass cannot. Eternity is a great Gulf, & when men are got into the other world, they have shot the Gulf, they are staked down for Eternity.
It will appear that men are going into an Eternal world if we consider,