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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
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.
USE IV.
If Christ is such a Mighty One, then w• to His Enemies. The mightiest of them all are nothing in his Almighty Hards. Devils are greater in Power and Might than Men are, but they cannot stand before the Power of C• The Disciple said, Lord, the […] are Subject to us through thy Name, ⟨p. 47⟩that is, through thy Power. They have sometimes cringed to Christ and begged Mercy of him. When there was a Legion of Devils entered into a miserable Man, the Master or Chief Devil among them, Cried with a loud voice, Jesus thou Son of God most high, I beseech thee torment me not, Luk. 8.28. Christ is sometimes compared to a Lamb in the Scripture, he is so (as some have observed Twenty times in the Book of Revelations,) importing his Patience and Long-Suffering towards his Enemies. But he is also compared to a Lion, denoting his Strength. This Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Who shall stir him up? Woe to the Man or Men, that shall dare to do it. He will soon tear them in pieces. He will tread them in his Anger, and trample them in his Fury. He will crush them under his Feet, as Grapes in the Wine-Press, and make his Garments Red with their Blood. Woe to the greatest of them, when Christ shall take them in hand. He shall strike through Kings in the day of his Wrath, and ⟨p. 48⟩shall w•und be •d over many Countries, Psal. 110.5, 8. And has he not done so? Has not the Pagan World fallen before him, which was thought impossible. When once the Day of his Wrath is come, the mightiest Men on Earth will cry bitterly.