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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.
1. Fallen sinful Man is the Objects of Christ's Salvation. There is a World of Fallen Angels which kept ou• their first Estate; they are in Chain• of Everlasting Darkness. Christ is not a Saviour to them. The Son of God took not on him the Nature of Angels, but He assumed the Nature of Man, and is therefore a Saviour not of Angels that have sinned, but of Men that have sinned. And His Salvation does extend to all sorts of sinful Men High and Low, Rich and Poor. Wherefore it is said, God our Saviour will have all Men, (meaning some of all sorts of Men) to be saved, • Tim. 2.4. There is not a Man in the World, but what needs a Saviour. For all Men are sinners. God in His holy Word declares that they are so. Gal 3.21. The Scripture has concluded all under sin. Now Christ came to save sinners. This is a saying worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. If Men were not sinners they would not ⟨p. 24⟩need a Saviour. When the Pharisees said to the Disciples, •y Eateth your Master with Publicans and Sinners, Jesus said to them, The whole have no need of a Physician but the sick. I am not come to call the Righteous, but Sinners to Repentance, Mat. 9.12, 13. Men have gone astray in the way of sin. They are lost, their Souls are lost, in a woeful Wilderness of sin & misery. But that Son of Man who is also the Son of God, came to seek and to save that which was lost, Luk. 19.10. The most wretched and forlorn sinners in the World, are not excluded from partaking in His Salvation. For unto such He does offer it, in the Gospel. To the Poor, the Maimed, the Halt, and the Blind, Luk. 14.21. There are some sinners which have a greater Load of Guilt upon their Souls than others have. Christ will be a Saviour to these, if they will come to Him for His Salvation, and He bids them all come. Mat. 11.28, 29. Come unto me all you that Labour and are Heavy Laden, and you shall find rest for your souls. Who can save from the