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The greatest concern in the world. A short and plain essay, to answer that…
The greatest concern in the world. A short and plain essay, to answer that most concerning and all concerning enquiry, What must I do to be saved? : Published, with a design to assist the addresses of good men unto their neighbours, whom they press to mind, the one thing that is needful.
printed by T. Green, 1718
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
You must Know, First; From what you do need Salvation. And here;
First; You are to Know, That the One Eternal & Infinite God, who Subsisteth in Three Persons (or Aspects) which His Word calls, The Father & the Son, and the Holy Spirit; Created our First Parents, ⟨p. 6⟩in an Holy and Happy State, at the End of the Six Days, in which He Created all thing.
But our First Parents hearkening to the Temptations of Wicked Spirits, did Eat a Forbidden Fruit; and by that Sin, they Fell from God, and from their Holy and Happy State; And their Fall has brought their Children with them, into a State of Sin and Misery. Their Sin was Our Sin; From their Corrupt Nature we are Born into the world Envenomed with such a Nature. The Death which the Broken Law of God threatened unto them, is due to us all: A Death which intends all Misery, not only in this World, but in Another, where our Souls continue Immortal, after they have left this world.
But our First Parents hearkening to the Temptations of Wicked Spirits, did Eat a Forbidden Fruit; and by that Sin, they Fell from God, and from their Holy and Happy State; And their Fall has brought their Children with them, into a State of Sin and Misery. Their Sin was Our Sin; From their Corrupt Nature we are Born into the world Envenom'd with such a Nature. The Death which the Broken Law of God threatned unto them, is due to us all: A Death which intends all Misery, not only in this World, but in Another, where our Souls continue Immortal, after they have left this world.