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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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Considering that Christ is such a Mighty Saviour, His People have cause to Rejoice and to be of good Comfort. They need not fear what their Enemies can do against them, as long as they have such a Mighty One as Jesus Christ to be their King to Protect and Save them. Psal. 149.2. Let the Children of Zion be joyful in their King. He is Mighty in Counsel as well as in Power. And is therefore able to disappoint all the Machinations of Earth and Hell against His Church, be their Enemies never so many or never so mighty. Why do the Heathen rage, and the People imagine a vain thing. The Kings of the Earth set themselves, ⟨p. 42⟩and the Nations take Counsel together against the Lord and against his Christ. He that •its in Heaven shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision. The Devil and Wicked Men, have been designing the extirpation of the Church of Christ along time. Christ should not have an holy People on the Earth, if they could help it. Psal. 83.3, 4. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, come, and let us cut them off from being a Nation, that the Name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. A thing which they could never accomplish, nor ever shall they, as long as the Church has such a Mighty Saviour to defend them. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who Rules the World, lets the Enemies of his People go on a great way, until they say of them, they are a ruined Party, and then […] sudden he makes a mighty Re•tion, & crushes his Enemies under the Wheel of his Providence, as we see in what befell Haman, who plotted the destruction of all the Lord's People, ⟨p. 43⟩but it proved his own ruin. That Mighty Lord Jesus Christ, who saveth his People with an Eternal Salvation, is easily able to accomplish Temporal Salvations for them, when and so far as he pleaseth. Oft-times he has done so when his People have been reduced to the greatest extremity. When he sees that their Power is gone, and there is none shut up and left to be a Deliverer for them, his own Arm brings Salvation. When it is with them as it was with Isaac, the Knife was just made ready to cut his Throat, then the Angel called out of Heaven, Hold thy hand,