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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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And therefore Heaven is said to be a City that has Foundations, Heb. 11. 10. 'Tis not like the Tents of Old that had no Foundations, but might be pulled up and removed. It hath Foundations whose Maker & Builder is GOD, says the Apostle. The greatest Cities in the world, the most famous that ever were of Mens building, have been destroyed. But this is a City, a Building that shall never be destroyed; because of the ⟨p. 141⟩Glorious Architect of it: the Builder of it is the Eternal God himself. And the Inhabitants of Heaven they are all of them immortal ones. God, Christ, Angels, the Souls of Men, yea and the Bodies of the Saints of God, shall be immortalized before their translation unto Heaven. At the Resurrection their Bodies are made immortal, neither can they dye any more, Luk. 20. 36. Then this Mortal shall put on Immortality, and this Corruptible shall put on Incorruption. And the Blessedness of Heaven is an Eternal Blessedness: It is Eternal Life. It is in Scripture expressed by that of an Everlasting Kingdom. • Pet. 1. 11. The Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. And 'tis called an Incorruptible Crown, that fades not away. 1 Pet. 5. 4. It is not like the Glory of this world that fades; but the Heavenly Glory, tis a Crown that fades not away When once a man is got safe into the Heavenly ⟨p. 142⟩Country, he shall never be removed from thence any more. Rev. 3. 12. He shall go out no more, says Christ. In this respect the Heavenly Paradise does infinitely excel the Earthly one. Adam was turned out of that, but the Believer shall never be turned out of this. 'Tis therefore called an Everlasting Habitation, Luk. 16. 9. That they may receive you into Everlasting Habitations.
And therefore Heaven is said to be a City that has Foundations,