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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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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.
Methinks, A most Obvious Inference may be drawn from these Things; That the Ministry of the Gospel must be Attended, and not Neglected, by them who would not Neglect the Great Salvation; A most awful Inference, That it is a Dangerous Thing to Live without the Means of Salvation, which are in the Ministry of the Gospel; ordinarily to be met withal. The Wells of Salvation are kept open in such a Ministry. Oh! Do not undervalue the Blessings of those Upper Springs; There are men, who by the Command of a Glorious CHRIST, give themselves up unto the Service of the Evangelical Ministry, and are the Preachers of the Gospel unto the rest ⟨p. 22⟩of the world: An Order of men concerning whom our Glorious Lord has promised, Mat. 28.20. Lo, I am with you, always to the End of the world. If an Angel should come from Heaven unto you, as unto Cornelius once, to speak unto this Question, What must I do to be Saved? He would unquestionably say, Repair to such a Ministry; Don't think to live without it.
We have settled the Point; Without Faith we can have no Salvation. But I assume; Rom. 10.14, 17. How shall they Believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a Preacher? Faith comes by Hearing, & Hearing by the Word of God. Oh! That the Ungospellized Plantations, which Live, I should rather say, which Die, without the Means of Salvation, would Consider of it!
We have settled the Point; Without Faith we can have no Salvation. But I assume; Rom. 10.14, 17. How shall they Believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a Preacher? Faith comes by Hearing, & Hearing by the Word of God. Oh! That the Ʋngospellized Plantations, which Live, I should rather say, which Dy, without the Means of Salvation, would Consider of it!