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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 V.
Christless Sinners are in a miserable Case. For they have no Saviour. None besides Jesus Christ is able to save a Soul. Act. 4.12. Neither is there Salvation in any other. To miss of Salvation is a doleful thing. For if not Salvation, what then is to be expected? The Gospel declares what, Mark 16.15, 16. Go and Preach the Gospel. And what must we say, when we Preach the Gospel? we must say, He that believeth shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned. Every Soul of Man must be either Saved or Damned, and both these Estates are Eternal. Mat. 25.46. These, the Wicked, Christless Sinners will be found among them, shall go away into everlasting punishment, and the righteous into life eternal. If once in Hell, then forever in Hell. When once the Soul of a Sinner is gone to that Place, where other ungodly ⟨p. 52⟩Souls have gone before him, shall he come out again? No, he shall not. Psal. 49.19. He shall go to the generation of his Fathers, they shall never see light. There is no hope that ever he should. No more hope of it, than there is of a Man who is Dead and in his Grave, that he should live again. Isa. 38.18. They that go down to the pit, cannot hope for thy truth. When they are in that Prison, they can't break Prison. Can they break the Bars of the Bottomless Pi•? They must not come out of that Prison until they have paid the whole Debt that was owing to the terrible Justice of God. Not until they have paid the uttermost Farthing, Mat. 5.26. But that can Never, Never, Never be. And although' some Sinners shall have a deeper Damnation in Hell than others shall, yet they that shall have the least, will be miserable enough. Whatever their pain of sense shall be, to be sure the pain of loss which they shall be subject to, will be Infinite. They shall never see the Face of God, they shall