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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.
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.
First; This must be done; You must come to be bitterly sensible, that you want a Glorious CHRIST for your Saviour. We read, Joh. 7.37. If any man Thirst, let him come unto me. Truly, no man will come to a CHRIST, until a Thirst, or a Pungent and Painful sense of the Want of a CHRIST, be raised in him. You must feel the Burden of your Sin, lying on you; and Cry out, Oh! Tis an heavy Burden, too heavy for me! You must see GOD Angry with you Sin Binding of you, Hell Gaping for you; and utterly Despair of Helping your selves out of the Confusion that is come upon you. You must be filled with Sorrow, for what you have done; with Horror at what you are Exposed unto. The Cry of your Uneasy Souls must be that; Rom. 7.24. O wretched man that I am; who shall deliver me!