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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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ALL Excuses for not Believing on Christ are Unreasonable. › Application 1: USE I. For INSTRUCTION.
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1. They shall be deprived of all Good. They shall not taste of the great Supper. Luk. 14. 24. None of those that were •idden shall taste of my Supper. No not one of them. They shall be Excluded the Heavenly and the Eternal Banquet, and shall never eat Bread in the Kingdom of God: How miserable must such needs be? And what miserable anguish will take hold on those poor Creatures, when they shall see others in Heaven, and think with themselves, We might have been there too if it had not been for our ⟨p. 65⟩own fault and folly! We were invited to the same joy•s, but we did not accept of it. Luk. 13. 28. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see Abraham Isaac & Jacob in the Kingdom of God, and you your selves thrust out. Oh! what anguish will they be in when they shall see those that heard the same Sermons that they did, in Heaven; with what regret will they think of it, because they might have had Everlasting Life as well as those, but they would not. They that go on to refuse Christ, refuse Everlasting Life, and resolve forever to be deprived of it. The Apostle told the Jews that if they did put away the Word of Life from them, they did judge themselves unw•• thy of Everlasting Life. They did thereby pass a sentence upon themselves, and declare that they deserved to be deprived of Everlasting Life. There is no life but by coming ⟨p. 66⟩to Christ. Never any one sinner since the world began did obtain Eternal Life but by Christ, and by believing on him. Joh. 14. 6. None can come to the Father but by me, I am the Way the Truth and the Life. He is the only true way to Eternal Life. They then that neglect this offer of Salvation by Christ, shall be deprived of Life Eternal. Are they not then miserable? If men are in danger to lose a bodily life, they think themselves miserable: But what is that to this? What is a Temporal to an Eternal Life? What is the life of the Body, to the life of the Soul? If a man gain the whole world and lose his own soul, what is he profited? Now they that persist in their Unbelief will lose their immortal Souls. The precious life of an immortal Soul will be lost by keeping at a distance from CHRIST.