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A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the…
A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, June 16. and in Connecticut-Colony [sic], June 22. 1705. : Also, two sermons, showing, that sin is the greatest evil; and, that to redeem time is the greatest wisdom. / By Increase Mather.A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, June 16. and in Conecticot-Colony [sic], June 22. 1705. : Also, two sermons, shewing, that sin is the greatest evil; and, that to redeem time is the greatest wisdom. / By Increase Mather.
Boston: printed by Timothy Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1706
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2. The Lord declares positively what was the special thing which he requested for them, viz. That they might be kept from the Evil. There is the Evil One, and the Evil Thing. The Evil One, is the Devil. The Evil thing, is Sin: And that is here intended. Christ does not Pray that His Disciples should be kept from the Evil of Affliction, or that the should be wholly preserved from Satan Temptations. Only that those Temptation ⟨p. 39⟩might not prevail over them, so as to cause them to Sin in such sort, as to loose their Interest in Him. Sin is said to be not only An Evil, but The Evil. It is the Evil of Evils; the worst Evil that can be mentioned, or that can be Prayed against.
2. The Lord declares positively what was the special thing which he requested for them, viz. That they might be kept from the Evil. There is the Evil One, and the Evil Thing. The Evil One, is the Devil. The Evil thing, is Sin: And that is here intended. Christ does not Pray that His Disciples should be kept from the Evil of Affliction, or that the should be wholly preserved from Satan• Temptations. Only that those Temptation ⟨p. 39⟩might not prevail over them, so as to cause them to Sin in such sort, as to loose their Interest in Him. Sin is said to be not only An Evil, but The Evil. It is the Evil of Evils; the worst Evil that can be mentioned, or that can be Prayed against.
Wherefore the DOCTRINE to be insisted on, is,
That Sin is the Greatest Evil.