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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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2. Whence is it that men are apt to make Excuses and Objections against Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ?
Question 1. What are those Excuses which men commonly make, & the Unreasonableness of them?
Answer 1. Men are are ap• to pretend that their coming to Christ will be prejudicial to their worldly and carnal Interests. Thus here, three are mentioned as Excusing themselves: Two of them their excuse was, it would be prejudicial to their worldly profit, the other because it would be prejudicial to his carnal sensual delights. Men are apt to think, that if they come to Christ they shall ⟨p. 15⟩suffer as to their Outward estate. It may be they shall be Poor then. And indeed tho' the Lord Jesus Christ does not require that all his Disciples should actually part with whatever in the world they enjoy, nevertheless he requires that they be willing to do it when he shall put them upon it. Luk. 14. 32 He that will not forsake all that he has cannot be my Disciple. A man must be willing to forsake all the Comforts that he has in the world, when ever Christ calls him to it, or he can't be his Disciple. Yet nevertheless, this Excuse is very Unreasonable: For if a man should lose all that he has in the world and gain Christ instead of it, he would be no loser, but an infinite gainer. Eph. 3. 8. The Apostle there speaks of the Unsearchable Riches of Christ. If a man looses the world and gains Christ, he has unsearchable Riches instead of that which he ⟨p. 16⟩