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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
JESUS CHRIST IS A Mighty Saviour.JESƲS CHRIST IS A Mighty Saviour.
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.
4. Jesus Christ is a Mighty Saviour in respect of the Multitude of Subjects which are saved by him. There are a World of them. Joh. 4.42. This is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the World. No Saviour that ever was in the World, saved so many as Christ has done. Cyrus was an instrument in the hand of God, to accomplish a great Temporal Salvation for a whole Nation. He set at liberty Nine and forty thousand Captives at once, Ezra 2.64. But Jesus Christ has saved a far greater ⟨p. 10⟩Number of the Captives of Hell; He is a Saviour not only of Jews, but of Gentiles dispersed throughout the World. Wherefore the Apostle says, 1 Joh. 2.2. He is a Propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only. Not for ours only who are Jews, but also of the whole World; meaning the Gentile World: Great Numbers among the Jews have been saved by Christ: In the Apostles days, there were Myriads of them. Act. 21.20. Many thousands of Jews believe: but far more thousands of that People shall ere long believe on Christ, and so become the Subjects of his Salvation. It is supposed by some Learned Men, that if the Jews which are scattered over the face of the whole Earth, were gathered together, they would be the most Numerous Nation in the World: but this Nation shall turn to the Lord, and then all Israel shall be Saved. But among the Gentiles Christ has had •r more Subjects than among the Jews. Many Millions of them have been Converted to Christ, and Saved ⟨p. 11⟩by him. And among the Gentiles also, there are whole Nations that shall ere long become Christs Subjects. He will be their King, and he will Save them. All the Ends of the World shall turn to the Lord. The Lord shall be King over all the Earth; In that day shall there be One Lord and his Name One, Zech. 14.9. Then all the World will see and know and believe that Jesus Christ is a Mighty Saviour. His Elect, although' they are but few compared with the Reprobate World, Nevertheless, in themselves considered they are a Mighty Number, and all Saved by Christ.