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Several sermons wherein is showed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II.…Several sermons wherein is shewed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II.…
Several sermons wherein is showed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II. That God converts his elect some at one age, and some at another, commonly before old age. III. That when godly men dye, angels carry their souls to another and a better world. : With a preface in which there is a brief and true character of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Bridge a lately deceased pastor in one of the churches in Boston. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]Several sermons wherein is shewed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II. That God converts his elect some at one age, and some at another, commonly before old age. III. That when godly men dye, angels carry their souls to another and a better world. : With a preface in which there is a brief and true character of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Bridge a lately deceased pastor in one of the churches in Boston. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1715
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Doctrine may be Opened and Confirmed in several Propositions.
PROP. I. Every Man consists of a Body and a Soul in respect of the one of which he is subject to Death, but not in respect of the other. These are the two essential Parts of Man. It was so in the first Creation, and it is so still. The first Man consisted of a Body and a Soul: Gen 2.7. The Lord God formed Man of the dust of the Ground, & breathed into his Nostrils the breath of Life, & Man became a living soul. Thus does every Man consist of an humane Body, and a rational Soul. That Creature which does not so, is not one of Mankind. Math. 10, 28, Fear not them which kill ⟨p. 97⟩the body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear him, which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. These two are of very differing nature and properties. The Body does incur the outward Senses, but the Soul does not so. The Body may be seen and felt, but the Soul cannot be so; for it is a Spiritual substance. Christ said to the Disciples when he appeared to them after his Resurrection, & they thought he had been a Spirit, Handle me and see for a spirit has not flesh & bones as you see me have, Luk. 24.39. The Soul is often called a Spirit. In the Scripture, Man, is distributed into Body and Soul, (as was showed) and sometimes into Body and Spirit, 1 Cor. 6.20. It is in respect of the Body that Men dye, which is therefore called your Mortal Body, Rom. 5.14. And that being an Essential Part of Man, he is called Mortal Man, Job 4.17. Its usual among Writers to call Men by the Name of Mortals. To dye is the fate of all the Men on the Earth. Godly Men as well as others. Lazarus as well as ⟨p. 98⟩