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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.
5. Jesus Christ is a Saviour of Souls, and therefore a Mighty Saviour. He is called the Shepherd of Souls, 1 Pet. 2.25. Sin has brought death not only on the Bodies of Men, but on their Souls. Ezek. 18.4. The soul that sinneth shall die. And a woeful death it is that Sin brings on the Souls of Men. Indeed the Soul does not die a natural death as the Body does, but it may be a subject of great woe and misery, and that's death. Isal. 3.9. They declare their sin as Sodom, woe to their soul. But Jesus Christ saves both Soul & Body. Who is able to redeem a Body that is dead from the Power of the Grave? Jesus Christ the Son of God can do it, has done it, and will do it. Joh. 5.25. Verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. But to quicken and save a Soul that has been dead in Trespasses and Sins, is a Mightier work, than to raise all the dead Bodies in the World, yet this Jesus Christ has Power to do. ⟨p. 13⟩Therefore he says, Isai. 55.3. Come unto me, hear, and your souls shall live. Christ has redeemed Souls as well as Bodies by a Mighty Price. 1 Cor. 6.20. You are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit. And what it that price, which has bought both Body and Spirit? It is the price of blood, and the most precious blood that ever was, or that possibly can be, the blood of Christ which is the blood of God. And as Christ has saved the Souls of his People by Price, so likewise by Power. His All-powerful Arm has vanquished all the Powers of darkness. Col. 2.15. Having spoiled Principalities and Powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them. He has led Captivity Captive: He has dis-armed the Devil and all his Angels and as it were tied them to his triumphal Chariot, and exposed them openly in the sight of Heaven and Earth: So has he set the Souls that were the Captives of Hell at Liberty. The Salvation of a Soul is a Mighty thing. It is so, considering