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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.
Many a Rocky Heart, that has been as Hard as an Adamant Stone, He has broken it, and then healed it. He was sent to bind up the broken hearted, Isa. 61.1. Deliverance from the second Death is a mighty Salvation. There are some concerning whom it is said, Of such the second Death hath no power, Rev. 20.6. There is a first Death, which is a Death of the Body, no Man is exempted from that: What Man is there that lives, and shall not see Death. The second Death is that which follows upon the first, as to the Soul of the Sinner, immediately upon its ⟨p. 18⟩separation from the •dy and of both Soul and Body in Hell after the day of Judgment, a part in that Lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death. This is that which Sinners are condemned unto. If it had not been for Jesus Christ, no Sinner in the World had been delivered from that terrible death: But Jesus Christ the Son of God has saved a World of Perishing Souls from it. Joh. 3.17. God sent not his son into the World to condemn the World, but that the World through him might be saved. The most formidable Thing that can possibly be thought on, is the Wrath of the Infinite God. Who can save from it? It is too mighty for any Creature in Heaven or Earth to undertake. Who can quench that Devouring Fire? Christ has done it with his own Blood. Being Justified by his Blood, we shall he saved from Wrath through him, Rom 5.9. It is a Wrath to come, and will be Eternally coming. But Jesus has delivered us from the Wrath to come, 1 Thes. 1.10. ⟨p. 19⟩And this He does by saving from Sin. Mat. 1.21. Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his People from their sins. It is Sin that has caused the Displeasure of God against a sinful sinning World, and caused his Wrath to burn to the bottom of Hell. Christ by saving from Sin, has saved from Wrath, and from all the dreadful direful Effects of that Wrath. Sin is the greatest Evil. He that saves from the greatest Evil is the greatest Saviour. Other Evils other Saviours may possibly deliver from, but Sin is that Evil which none but Christ can save from.