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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.
In one of the Subsequent Discourses, the Immortality of the Soul, and a Future State after Death is asserted: Which is a Truth that may be known by the Light of ⟨p. iv⟩Nature, without Scripture Revelation. Some Philosophers (the Platonics especially) have believed it; Plato having taught that when Men dye their Souls pass through the Air to Eternal Mansions, and he says, some have been restrained from wicked Practices, because they were Convinced of a Future Recompense in another World. It is reported, that one having read what that Philosopher has Written concerning the Immortality of the Soul, was so affected with it, as to profess that he had rather suffer Death, than do a wicked thing. How inexcusable then will those Christians be that Live Ungodly […] when they have the clear lig• of Scripture, to make known unto them, what will become of their Immortal Souls, when by Death separated from their Bodies, and they gone into ETERNITY; ⟨p. v⟩And what Consolation must it needs afford to godly Souls, to be assured, that Holy Angels will be sent from Heaven, to Conduct them to Glory. There was a Book Printed at London, (1701.) being a Discourse Concerning Angels. It is a very Judicious and Solid Treatise: The Authors Name is not prefixed; but the Bookseller (Mr. Parkhurst) has informed me that Mr. Saunders an Eminent Minister in Devon, wrote it. The Reader may find this Truth confirmed by that Author, as well as by many others, who Treat of Angels
In one of the Subsequent Discourses, the Immortality of the Soul, and a Future State after Death is asserted: Which is a Truth that may be known by the Light of ⟨p. iv⟩Nature, without Scripture Revelation. Some Philosophers (the Platonicks especially) have believed it; Plato having taught that when Men dye their Souls pass through the Air to Eternal Mansions, and he says, some have been restrained from wicked Practices, because they were Convinced of a Future Recompence in another World. It is reported, that one having read what that Philosopher has Written concerning the Immortality of the Soul, was so affected with it, as to profess that he had rather suffer Death, than do a wicked thing. How inexcusable then will those Christians be that Live Ungodly when they have the clear lig of Scripture, to make known unto them, what will become of their Immortal Souls, when by Death separated from their Bodies, and they gone into ETERNITY;