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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
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The two first of these Sermons (although' last Preached) are concerning Jesus Christ, as a Mighty Saviour. As I begun my Ministry Eight and Fifty Years ago, with Preaching Christ, so would I conclude it with Preaching Him. And the rather, because I see but little of Christ, in most of those Sermons which have of later Years been Published. Such Discourses are always seasonable, but they are so in a special manner, when there are Books Printed in which Arianism and Socinianism is contended for. It is a Marvellous thing, that Men who read the Scriptures & pretend to Believe them, should Question whether Jesus Christ is the True God, when there are no less than Fourteen Names or Appellations given to Him in the Scriptures, every one of which does declare his Deity, as Glassius has observed. They that trust in one, ⟨p. vii⟩that is a Man only, for Salvation, Cursed is their Faith. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm.
The two first of these Sermons (altho' last Preached) are concerning Jesus Christ, as a Mighty Saviour. As I begun my Ministry Eight and Fifty Years ago, with Preaching Christ, so would I conclude it with Preaching Him. And the rather, because I see but little of Christ, in most of those Sermons which have of later Years been Published. Such Discourses are alwayes seasonable, but they are so in a special manner, when there are Books Printed in which Arianism and Socinianism is contended for. It is a Marvellous thing, that Men who read the Scriptures & pretend to Believe them, should Question whether Jesus Christ is the True God, when there are no less than Fourteen Names or Appellations given to Him in the Scriptures, every one of which does declare his Deity, as Glassius has observed. They that trust in one, ⟨p. vii⟩that is a Man only, for Salvation, Cursed is their Faith. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm.
It might be expected, or however, I my self might expect, that one who has (through the Patience and goodness of God) arrived to my Age, should be dismissed from Public Labour, and enjoy rest in his Old Age, spending the remainder of his few days in Reading, and in Contemplations on another World. I cannot charge my self with having been altogether Idle […] my Younger Years, and now when Age has rendered me uncapable of doing as once I could, why may I not plead the Privilege of Miles Emeritus? Neveless, the wonderful Mercy of […] for which I ought every […] less his Name) having con to me a greater Measure of