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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.
GOD Converts His Elect, Some at one Age, and some at another, Commonly before Old Age.
Matthew XX. 5, 6. Again he went out about the Sixth and Ninth Hour, and did likewise. And about the Eleventh Hour—
IN the beginning of this Chapter there is a Parable concerning a Householder who being the Lord of a Vineyard, hi•ed Labourers to work therein. It was customary with the Jews for Men to go & stand in the Ma• Place […] any would set them to w• which custom Writ• inform […] is still ⟨p. 66⟩practised in the Eastern Nations The Jews divided their days into twelve Hours, and th•se into four Stations, or Portions, containing each of them three Hours. First from Six to Nine, which was with them the third hour of the day, from that to Twelve was the Sixth Hour, from which to that which we call three a Clock in the afternoon, was by them called the Ninth Hour, from that to Five was the Eleventh or last Hour of the day. By the Vineyard in this Parable the Church of God is meant. By the Labourers in the Vineyard we may understand the Elect of God Called and Converted to him. By the several Parts of the day, the several Ages of the Life of Man, Youth, Middle Age, and Old Age are described.
IN the beginning of this Chapter there is a Parable concerning a Housholder who being the Lord of a Vineyard, hi•ed Labourers to work therein. It was customary with the Jews for Men to go & stand in the Ma Place any would set them to w which custom Writ inform is still