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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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Meditation and serious Consideration has a• tendency to cause men to come to Christ▪ If they would meditate on their undone condition without Christ: If they would consider […] the state, the miserable condition they are in, and the way they are walking in, what it is, and whether it will bring them at the last; it may be Serious Thoughts of that nature would end in their Conversion and Salvation. This they ought to do, Hag. 1. 5. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts consider your ways. The Lord God of Hosts saith from Heaven to every sinner, Consider thy ways, what thou ha•t done, whether thou art going, where this way will bring thee ere long. And God requires men to consider of Death and Judgment to come. Deut. 32. 29. Oh that they were wise ⟨p. 36⟩that they would consider their latter •nd. This God requires of sinners, that they should sit down and consider of their latter end: Consider that Death is coming on them: Consider that after Death comes an Eternal Judgment. God requires sinners that they should think seriously of that Eternity to which they are going: That Eternity is before them in another world where they must quickly be. Eccl. 11. 8. Remember the days of darkness for they are many. Remember Eternity, consider of Eternity, and where you must be when you go out of this world. This God requires of men. And that they should Meditate on the Lord Jesus Christ: that they should think of his being a suitable Saviour for them: that they should Meditate on the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, and how he is altogether lovely. If they would do •o, it may be their Souls would be ⟨p. 37⟩enamoured with him; it may be they would be persuaded to part with all for his sake, if they would but Meditate on Jesus Christ and on his Glory. But now Sinners will not do this, although' they can do it if they will. For that Cogitative faculty, that power of thinking that God has given to men makes them capable to think of Christ, of Eternity, and of another World, as well as of the vain things of this world. That power which God has given them enables them to do it if they would. But they will not. They suffer other kind of thoughts to lodge in their souls,