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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
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(1.) There is then a glorious discovery of the Mighty Power of God. To make Bones that have been a long time dead and dry to live, no Power but that which is Almighty, can do it, Ezek. 3•.2, 3. When Lazarus had been dead but Four days, the glorious Power of God was manifested in rest•g him to Life. Wherefore Christ said to Martha when she objected •t her Brother had been dead Four days, Sa•d I not unto thee, that if thou wouldst believe thou shouldst see the ⟨p. 78⟩glory of God; Meaning his Power, Job. 11.40 It is a greater discovery of the Power & Glory of God, when a Soul that has been threescore Years dead and perishing in a Grave of Sin and Misery, shall be made to live. Its an easier matter to bend a young twig than an old tree: So is it an easier matter to Convert a Young Sinner than an Old Sinner, which has got incurable habits of Sin, incurable by any Power less than Miraculous. Jer. 13.23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin? or the Leopard his spots, then may ye do good that are accustomed to do evil. According to humane judgment it cannot be, but with God there is nothing impossible.
(1.) There is then a glorious discovery of the Mighty Power of God. To make Bones that have been a long time dead and dry to live, no Power but that which is Almighty, can do it, Ezek. 3•.2, 3. When Lazarus had been dead but Four dayes, the glorious Power of God was minifested in rest•g him to Life. Wherefore Christ said to Martha when she objected •t her Brother had been dead Four dayes, Sa•d I not unto thee, that if thou wouldst believe thou shouldst see the ⟨p. 78⟩