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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.
I. And what Better, what other Answer can be given, Other Foundation, can no man Lay! to this QUESTION, but what the Apostles of God gave to it of old? When the Poor man said, What must I do to be Saved? We read, They said, BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED. This is the Sum of the Gospel; This is the Charge given to the Ministers of the Gospel; Mar. 16.15, 16. Preach the Gospel to every Creature; He that Believeth shall be Saved. Faith in the Lord JESUS CHRIST, who is the Only Saviour; This, This must be found in all that will be Saved: The FAITH, which is, A Satisfaction of the mind in the way of Salvation by a Glorious CHRIST, Revealed in the Gospel: The FAITH, by which we Deny our selves, and Rely on a Glorious CHRIST, for all Salvation: The FAITH, by which we Receive a Glorious CHRIST, and Rest on Him for Salvation, as He is Offered unto us.
But how must this FAITH Operate in all that would be Saved?
Oh! Set your Hearts to these things; they are not Vain Things; Your Lives, the very Lives of your Souls are concerned in them. If your Hearts may now fall in with these things, and be formed and shaped according to the Evangelical Mould of them, lo, This Day Salvation is come unto your Souls. Glorious LORD, Incline the Hearts of our People, to do what must be done, that so thy Salvation may be bestowed upon them.
Oh! Set your Hearts to these things; they are not Vain Things; Your Lives, the very Lives of your Souls are concerned in them. If your Hearts may now fall in with these things, and be form'd and shap'd according to the Evangelical Mould of them, lo, This Day Salvation is come unto your Souls. Glorious LORD, Incline the Hearts of our People, to do what must be done, that so thy Salvation may be bestow'd upon them.