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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
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The Greatest Concern in the World.
ACTS XVI. 30. — What must I do to be Saved?
IT is Impossible to ask a more Weighty Question! It is Deplorable, that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with no more Agony. The spirit of Slumber which the Poison of the Old Serpent has brought upon the Children of men, is to be deplored Exceedingly. Awaken us out of this wonderful Stupidity, O God of all Grace, lest we Perish wonderfully!
IT is Impossible to ask a more Weighty Question! It is Deplorable, that we hear it ask'd with no more Frequency, with no more Agony. The spirit of Slumber which the Poison of the Old Serpent has bro't upon the Children of men, is to be deplored Exceedingly. Awaken us out of this wonderful Stupidity, O God of all Grace, lest we Perish wonderfully!
My design is to bring in a good & a full Answer to this Weighty Question. Oh! how Thankful ought we to be, for the Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God, that makes us able to Answer it! The Gospel which we have in our hands, tis a Gospel of such astonishing Mystery, of such Heavenly Majesty, and of such Consummate Purity, that it can be no other than the Word of God; It must be of a Divine Original. Oh! highly Favoured People, who know this Joyful Sound! Oh! Unavoidably, & Inexcusably Wretched, if we disregard it!