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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 2: USE II. For EXHORTATION.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
USE II. For EXHORTATION.
O let every Soul here this Day make sure of going into a Blessed Eternity.
Consider 1. This is the One thing needful. We should often think of those words of Christ, Luk. 10. ult. Thou art cumbered about many things, but One thing is needful. And what is that? 'Tis to make sure of a Blessed Eternity; to make sure that when once we are out of this, we shall be in a better world. Their Folly is beyond expression great, who that so they may enjoy the vanities of ⟨p. 156⟩the world, and the pleasures of sin for a season, will venture the loss of Eternal Happiness, & plunge their immortal Souls into Everlasting Misery. The blessed Martyr Hooper, when one tempted him to renounce the Truth, because Life is sweet, and Death is bitter, answered wisely, But Life Eternal is more sweet, & Death Eternal is more bitter. Another Martyr, the inquisitor saying to him, that his Life was in his own hands, well replied, Then it were in an ill keeping. But Christs School has taught me to save it by losing it, & not by the gaining of a few Days or Years, to lose Eternity. Those holy Martyrs were (& all good men are) sensible, that to make sure of a blessed Eternity, is the One thing needful above all other things. As for the many things that people are cumbering themselves about, and carking for, they are not needful. About what are men encumbering themselves? 'Tis how they may get ⟨p. 157⟩