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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
Sermon 2 › Application 6: The VI. and Last USE shall be this,
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The VI. and Last USE shall be this,
Let every One that would be Saved make sure of a Christ.
I'll set before you, only two Motives.
I'le set before you, only two Motives.
Consider 1. The most guilty Sinners in the World may be Saved by him, He is ⟨p. 61⟩a Saviour and a Great One. Therefore the greatest sinners may be saved by him. Notwithstanding the wounds of thy Soul are desperate as to all other Saviours. There is Balm in Gilead, there is a Physician there, will heal thee if thou wilt go to him, although' thou hast no Money nor Price to offer him, do but go to him, and he will heal thee on free cost. Notwithstanding, thou hast stabbed thine own Soul to Death a Thousand times over, a Plaster of his Blood will heal all those wounds. Thou hast destroyed thy self, thou hast murdered thine own Soul, but in him is thy help. Suppose thy Soul to be fallen never so deep in Hell, the Arm of this Saviour can reach and reco• it As great Sinners as over live• in the World have been saved by n. He never refused any that came to him, on the account of their having been great Sinners. O then make haste to him, and though thy sins have been as Scarlet, they shall be where as Snow, though they be red like Crimson, they shall […] as Wool.