N01732:101
Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when…
Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when the author attained to the eightieth year of his age. II. A dying testimony to the sovereign grace of God in the salvation of his elect, containing three sermons. III. Believers encouraged to pray from the consideration of Christs interceding for them, and with them. / By Increase Mather, D.D ; [Six lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1719
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So God may by of Believers, What could I have done more for them, I have given them that that is better than all this World, I have given Grace to them, which is a greater Mercy than if I had given them all the riches of this World, I have given Christ […] them, and will they Sin against me? • foolish people and unwise thus to requite […] Lord for His kindness, and for all He ••th done for you! O do not thus requite the Lord! It is the blackest ingratitude that possibly can be: you can••t dishonour the Lord more than by •inning against Him, after all He has […] for you: will you do that? Heaven & Earth may stand astonished at it. […] grieve the Spirit of God exceedingly: When a Godly Man Sins the Spirit of God is grieved more than when an Ungodly Man shall commit the same Sin. The Lord says of such an one, Psal. ••. 12, 13. If it had been an enemy I could have born it, but it was thou my friend. So •oes God say, If a wicked Man had committed such a Sin, if a wicked Man had […] himself drunk, or the like, I could ⟨p. 90⟩better have born it, but it was thou […] friend, thou a Believer in Christ, thou a Godly Man, this grieves Him, it goes to His heart. And there is the greatest Sacrilege in it, when a Believer shall commit Scandalous Sins against God, because he is United to Christ. 1 Cor.6.15. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ. Shall I take the Members of Christ, says the Apostle, and do wicked thing with them, God forbid, O horrible, shall a Man take that Tong•• that is united to Christ and Sin with that? Shall he take those hands that a•• united to Christ, and Sin with them▪ Oh let it not be! Moreover, when such Sin, when Godly Men fall into Scand• love-Sins they do a great deal of hurt […] Religion; they dishonour the Name of God exceedingly; it makes the Wor•• ready to become Atheists, and to thi there is nothing in Religion. Th when David sinned fearfully against Go the Prophet Nathan said to him. Th hast, given great occasion for the name of Go to be blasphemed. So it is, when such a One, so good a Man a David shall Si David's Sin did a great deal of hurt after