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A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing.…
A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasioned by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasion'd by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by T. Green, 1714
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Reas. 3. Obedience to the Will of God will prove Beneficial to those that shall duly Comply with his Will. It is not only in it self Good; but it is Good for us that we should do so. This is the way to be Blessed: Joh. 13.17. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. It is not the Hearer of the Word, but the Doer of the Work, which that requires that shall be Blessed in his Deed, Jam. 1.25. Would we know who shall go to Heaven, or whether we our selves are like to go thither when we leave this world? Then Consider, are we Doers of the Will of God? Christ says, Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord; that is to say, not every one that calls himself a Christian, or owns Christ to be his Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Who then? He that Doeth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven, Mat. 7.21. Would we have our Prayers heard? The Scripture says, That whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his Commandments; and do ⟨p. 28⟩those things which are Pleasing in his sight, 1 Joh. 3.22. The best way in the world for us to have our Wills, is to be willing that God should have His Will in all that he does concerning us. And if we do his Will in respect of Passive Obedience, we shall be no losers by it. It was an hard Obedience which God put Abraham upon, when he was Commanded to Sacrifice his only Son Isaac, & that he should do it with his own Hands too; but when the Lord saw that he was in Earnest set upon Complying with the Will of God, he spared the Life of Isaac, and Promised that he should be Blessed with a Numerous Posterity; and that one of his Posterity should be the Man in whom all the Nations of the Earth should be Blessed, Gen. 22.18.