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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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1. There, is merit enough in the Blood of Christ to save all the men in the world. 1 Joh. 2. 2. He is a propitiation for our sins, and not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole World. If all the men in the world should believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, there needs no more to be done that God should become propitious to them, than that which ⟨p. 21⟩Jesus Christ has already done. His Blood is infinitely Meritorious; and it most needs be so, because of his being not Man only but […] also. 1 Joh. 1. 7. The Blood […] Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. Inas-much as the Blood of Jesus Christ is the Blood of the Eternal Son of God, it cleanseth […] all sin. There is an infinite value and efficacy in it. There is a super-abundant merit in the Blood of Christ. As the repenting Prodigal said, Luk. 15. 17. There is Bread enough in my Fathers House and to spare. Even so, there is Merit enough in the Death of Christ and to spare. As for all those thousands of Millions that perish to Eternity, I will say to you, there is not one of them all that does perish for want of a sufficiency of Merit in the Blood of Christ to save them, but because they do not come to him & believe on him. Therefore,
1. There, is merit enough in the Blood of Christ to save all the men in the world. 1 Joh. 2. 2. He is a propitiation for our sins, and not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole World. If all the men in the world should believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, there needs no more to be done that God should become propitious to them, than that which ⟨p. 21⟩Jesus Christ has already done. His Blood is infinitely Meritorious; and it most needs be so, because of his being not Man only but 〈…〉 also. 1 Joh. 1. 7. The Blood 〈…〉 Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. Inas-much as the Blood of Jesus Christ is the Blood of the Eternal Son of God, it cleanseth all sin. There is an infinite value and efficacy in it. There is a super-abundant merit in the Blood of Christ. As the repenting Prodigal said,