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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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It is then a great Evil.
2. In Despair there is a great reflection on Jesus Christ the Son of God and Saviour of the World. It says Jesus Christ is but a little Saviour, whereas He is a Saviour, and a Great one, Isa. 63. 1. He is mighty to save. Despair says of Christ that He is a Physician that can cure only lesser diseases and not the greatest Whereas he is able to cure the most Diseased Soul in the world. As no Bodily Disease could stand before his power, Mat. 4. 23. He healed all manner of Sicknesses, and all manner of Diseases. That was to signify that he Healeth all manner of Soul Diseases: And that he has ⟨p. 89⟩obtained Forgiveness for all manner of Sins that men are guilty of. We find in the Gospel, some diseased Twelve, others Eighteen, others Thirty Eight Years, yet Christ did heal them; thereby declaring, that Souls which have been a long time under the Guilt of sin may through him hope for Forgiveness. And that the most Chronic, the most laveterate Soul-diseases may be and shall be healed by him. But Despair says otherwise. Heb. 7. 25. He is able to save to the uttermost. No, says Despair but he is not. Tho' a Sinner has destroyed himself to the uttermost; though he has damned his own Soul a Million times over, yet Christ is able to save him. Despair then is a reflection on the Merit of the Death and Blood of Christ, as though that Blood could make atonement for lesser offences, but not for great ones: Whereas the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ the ⟨p. 90⟩Son of God, cleanseth from all sin, 1 Joh. 1. 7. Let the sins be never so many, never so great, that Blood cleanseth from them all. There is more of Merit in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, than there has been of Demerit in the greatest Sin that ever was committed in the world. Adams sin was in some respects the greatest that ever was, for that has brought ruin on thousands of millions of Immortal Souls, yet the Merit of the Death of Christ, has exceeded the Demerit of that great Offence