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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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3. Sinners Excuse & Delay their coming to Christ because their hearts […] set upon those things which are inconsistent with Believing and Accepting him according to the terms of the Gospel. Three things the Gospel requires men to part withal▪ but their Hearts are set on them and they will not let them go.
3. Sinners Excuse & Delay their coming to Christ because their hearts 〈…〉 set upon those things which are inconsistent with Believing and Accepting him according to the terms of the Gospel. Three things the Gospel requires men to part withal▪ but their Hearts are set on them and they will not let them go.
1. There is their own Righteousness, men must be willing to renounce that. Mat. 16. 24. If a man will be my ⟨p. 55⟩Disciple he must deny himself. He must deny his Natural self and his Righteous self, which is the hardest piece of self-denial in the world. They that think it is not so, do not know what it is to deny Righteous self. Adam was to have been saved by a Righteousness of his own, and all his Children desire to be saved in the same way. Isa. 57. 10 Thou hast found the life in thy hands. That's what men exceedingly desire, they would have life by their own hands; they would obtain Eternal Life by some Works or Righteousness of their own. Sinners are loth to go a begging to Christ, to be beholden to another for life and for salvation their proud hearts cannot comply with that. They would rather with some works of their own purchase Salvation. A Learned Papist (but a Prou •one) said, If God would give him Heaven Gratis he would not accept of it on ⟨p. 56⟩