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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.
More Plainly. Our Blessedness now comes not unto us, on the Terms of a Covenant of Works. Tis not properly our Doing, that is the Condition of our Blessedness. We are to be Saved by Taking, rather than by Doing, The Condition is, Receive and be Saved. Or Be willing to be Saved. We speak of Doing, in the Largest sense of the word; and we still say, Something must be done, that we may be Saved.
Let the QUESTION then come in. And, Oh! Bring it in, with all the Solicitude, which were proper for, The Greatest Concern in the World; What must I do to be Saved?
Let the QUESTION then come in. And, Oh! Bring it in, with all the Sollicitude, which were proper for, The Greatest Concern in the World; What must I do to be Saved?
I have seen this Question Scandalously answered. in Pamphlets, that have been dispersed about our Nation. The One Thing that is Needful has been left unregarded, unmentioned; Perhaps, the observation of certain Superstitious Holidays, has been recommended instead of that One Thing. Alas, How have the Souls of men been Betrayed, by men Unskilful in the Word of Righteousness! How Unskilfully, and Unfaithfully have the Methods of Salvation been declared, by many who Pervert the Gospel of Christ! Not so now, I hope! A Pure Gospel, a Sound Doctrine, must be pursued. You are now to be treated with nothing but wholesome Words; nothing but the Faithful Sayings of God.
I have seen this Question Scandalously answered. in Pamphlets, that have been dispersed about our Nation. The One Thing that is Needful has been left unregarded, unmention'd; Perhaps, the observation of certain Superstitious Holidays, has been recommended instead of that One Thing. Alas, How have the Souls of men been Betray'd, by men Ʋnskilful in the Word of Righteousness! How Unskilfully, and Unfaithfully have the Methods of Salvation been declared, by many who Pervert the Gospel of Christ! Not so now, I hope! A Pure Gospel, a Sound Doctrine, must be pursu'd. You are now to be treated with nothing but wholesome Words; nothing but the Faithful Sayings of God.