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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. Sin keeps the Soul out of Heaven. It caused the Apostate Angels to be detruded and excluded thence, although' that was their native Country. They have suffered an Eternal Banishment never to come within the Palace of the Great King any more. Adam was Ejected Paradise for one sin, and a flaming sword […] him from entering there any more. Thus does sin cause the soul that shall Dye under the guilt of it, to be forever Excluded Heaven, Rev. 21. 27. There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles. The man that indulgeth himself in the wilful breach of one Commandment, will find the Gate of Heaven shut against his soul; Mat. 5. 19. Whosoever shall break one if these least Commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven. He shall never come there. The Souls life is in its happiness. In Heaven there is fullness of Joy, ⟨p. 56⟩and Pleasures for evermore; but sin deprives the Soul of all that Happiness. Banishment is a kind of Death. It is Death to an immortal soul to be Banished from the presence of God in Heaven for ever.
2. Sin keeps the Soul out of Heaven. It caused the Apo••ate Angels to be detruded and excluded thence, altho' that was their native Countr•y. They have suffered an Eternal Banishment never to come within the Palace of the Great King any more. Adam was Ejected Paradise for one sin, and a flaming sword 〈…〉 him from entring there any more. Thus does sin cause the soul that shall Dye under the guilt of it, to be forever Excluded Heaven, Rev. 21. 27. There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles. The man that indulgeth himself in the wilful breach of one Commandment, will find the Gate of Heaven shut against his soul; Mat. 5. 19. Whosoever shall break one if these least Commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven. He shall never come there. The Souls life is in its happiness. In Heaven there is fuess of Joy,