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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.
We proceed then to clear the Truth before us by an Induction of particulars.
1. Some of the Elect of God are Converted in their Youth. Of this we have many Instances recorded in the Scriptures. Joseph was doubtless a Godly. ⟨p. 69⟩Child before his Brethren Sold him into Egypt, and yet then he was but Seventeen Years old. He was troubled at the Misdemeanours of his Brethren, and informed his Father of them, that so he might use proper means for their Reformation, Gen 37.2. He was therefore a Pious Youth, Samuel also was a Godly Child: he had rare Communications from God in his •ender Years: Such as no one else had in those days when the Word of the Lord was precious: 1 Sam. 3.8 […] that the Lord had called […] Before he was come to his full •th there was a signal Presence of God with him, v. 19. Obadiah could say, I […] the […] from my youth, • •ng 18.1•. asa in the Sixteenth Year of his age discovered an extraordinary […] and Zeal for God: While he was •ng he sought after G• […] himself to make a […] •gh Reformation throughout his •gd […] thy is another Instance of Lu• Piety▪ He had Grace wrought in his Soul when ⟨p. 70⟩he was a Child: 2 Tim. 3.15