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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 3: PROPOSITION III.
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It will appear that men are going into an Eternal world if we consider,
1. There are some that are going in the way to Heaven, in that way that will certainly bring them to Heaven. For there are some in the world ⟨p. 138⟩that are Regenerated, that have experienced a new and heavenly Birth. Joh. 3. 7. You must be Born again, Born from above as the word there is. Now a heavenly Birth does incline men to walk in that way that brings to Heaven. Grace, true Grace is a spark of the heavenly World; it is Heaven in the beginning of it. Grace is called Glory in the Scriptures, for that it is Glory in the beginning of it, and it ends there. If God has given Grace to a man, 'tis an infallible sign that he is bound for Heaven; if he has true, saving, sanctifying. Grace wrought in his Soul by the Spirit of God. Ephes. 1. 13, 14. We are Sealed with the Spirit of Promise which is the earnest of our Inheritance. Heaven that is the Inheritance▪ promised to us, if the Spirit of God hath sealed us: If he hath made impressions of the Divine Image upon us, in respect of a work of Sanctifying Grace, that ⟨p. 139⟩is the Sealing of the Spirit, which is an earnest, a sure sign that such a Soul is bound for heaven. There are some in the world that have true Faith in Jesus Christ, a Faith that works by Love, a Faith that causes them to be Obedient unto All the Commands of God. Now this Faith leads to Heaven, 1 Pet. 1. 9. Receiving the end of your Faith the Salvation of your Soul. If a man then have true Faith wrought in him, that Faith will end in the Salvation of his Soul in Heaven to Eternity. If a man has Faith, then the Righteousness of Christ is his.