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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.
10.28, 29. He that despised Moses law dyed without mercy; of how much sorer punishment suppose you shall he be thought worthy, that has trodden under foot the Son of God. Will not those horrible Sinners which lived in Sodom and Gomorrah, have a fearful Damnation at the last Day? But Sinners who have had the Gospel Preached to them, and yet remain in a Christless estate, and live & dye so, shall have a greater Damnation: Witness what the Lord ⟨p. 54⟩Jesus Christ has spoken, Mat. 10.15. Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah, at the day of Judgment than for that City. But some will be ready to say, Who are Christless? Do you make Infidels of us? Are we not all Christians? I Answer; We are so nominally, but are we all so really? Would to God it were so; But alas! many call themselves Christians, whom Christ will not own for such another day. Mat. 7.21. Not every one that sayeth unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; many will say have we not prophesied in thy name, and then will I profess unto them, I never knew you. Most certain it is:
10.28, 29. He that despised Moses law dyed without mercy; of how much sorer punishment suppose you shall he be thought worthy, that has troden under foot the Son of God. Will not those horrible Sinners which lived in Sodom and Gomorrah, have a fearful Damnation at the last Day? But Sinners who have had the Gospel Preached to them, and yet remain in a Christless estate, and live & dye so, shall have a greater Damnation: Witness what the Lord ⟨p. 54⟩Jesus Christ has spoken, Mat. 10.15. Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tollerable for Sodom and Gomorrah, at the day of Judgment than for that City. But some will be ready to say, Who are Christless? Do you make Infidels of us? Are we not all Christians? I Answer; We are so nominally, but are we all so really? Would to God it were so; But alas! many call themselves Christians, whom Christ will not own for such another day.