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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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2. God requires of sinners that they should not resist the Inward strivings of his holy Spirit. As that they should not refuse nor reject the Outward calls of his Word, so that they should not resist the Inward strivings of his Spirit: and yet this they do, and this they will do tho' they are ⟨p. 33⟩Damned for it when they have done. 1 Thes. 5. 19. Quench not the Spirit says God. Ayo, but sinners when the Spirit of God has beg•n to kindle a holy fire in their hearts, they quench it, they put it out. Thus it was with the sinners of the old world, Gen. 6. 3. My Spirit shall not always strive with Man. The Spirit of God had been striving with them. Righteous Noah Preached many powerful Sermons unto them: that Preacher of Righteousness would sometimes startle and amaze their Consciences, but they rejected they resisted the Holy Spirit striving in that Ministry. So it was with the rebellious Children of Israel, Isa. 63. 10. They rebelled & vexed his Holy Spirit, therefore he became their Enemy. And so it was with their Children a long time after them, Act. 7. 51. You staff-necked and Uncircumcised in Heart and Ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost Sinners resist the Holy Ghost ⟨p. 34⟩when he strives with them, & uses arguments to persuade them to come to Christ. Therefore their pre••n•ions that they cannot believe are vain, since they resist the motions of his Spirit.
2. God requires of sinners that they should not resist the Inward strivings of his holy Spirit. As that they should not refuse nor reject the Outward calls of his Word, so that they should not resist the Inward strivings of his Spirit: and yet this they do, and this they will do tho' they are ⟨p. 33⟩