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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 › Application 1: USE I.
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USE I.
How great is their Error that think there is no Eternal Beings? It is wonderful that men that have reasonable Souls in them should be so unreasonable. But there have been such; I wish there were none such in New-England, that would persuade themselves that there is neither God nor Devil, nor any other World besides this: But how foolish are they that think so, Psal. 14. 1. The Fool •ath said in his heart there is no God. Yea Fools indeed they ⟨p. 149⟩are that say so, or think so. If there be no God, how can there be such a World as this that we see? The invisible things of God, his Eternal Power and God-head are clearly manifested by the Creation of the world. If a man comes to a place where he finds many Houses, and some of them stately Buildings, suppose no man to be seen there, yet he concludes some men have been there to build such Houses, for they could not make themselves. So when men look on the world and see what Creatures there are, what mighty and glorious Creatures some of them are, as the Sun in the Firmament, and fixed Stars innumerable, & (as Astronomers conjecture) greater than the Sun it self; they cannot but conclude surely then there is an Eternal God to be the Creator of these things: They then are most unreasonable, and their Error worse than Diabolical that ⟨p. 150⟩doubt of this. Others believe that there is an Eternal God, an Eternal Power, but they don't believe that there are Immortal Creatures, they don't believe that there are Invisible Beings, that there are Angels belonging to another world. So the Sadducees of old, Act. 2•. 8. They said there was no Angels. But God does sometimes by wonderful Providences make men to see it in respect of their effects and operations. The Providence of God makes men see that there are Evil Angels, since persons Possessed are miserably tormented by them Therefore there is an Heaven and an Hell. Some are so […] as to believe they have no immortal Souls, that their Souls dyes with their Bodies as the souls of Bruits do: But if the Soul be not immortal how comes it to pass that they can think and judge of Eternal Objects, that mens Souls are able to think on God. Angels,