N01732:104
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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Shall I say to thee, If thou shouldst Despair now Life and Salvation is offered to thee, that Despair of thine, will be a greater Sin than ever thou hast committed ⟨p. 94⟩in all thy Life before. And […] not godly Parents Despair of the Conversion of their Children, although' at prese•• it may be, there is little signs of it, but the contrary. It may be thou hast a▪ So• or a Daughter, that is a grief of heart to thee, yet Despair not, you know […] what Infinite Grace may do. It may be as for that Son of thine that ev•• breaks thy heart, it may be God will bring some sad affliction upon him, and set him a praying and crying to God▪ […] was so with Manasseh, he was the […] a very godly Father; yet was notoriously wicked, and continued a long time to […] so; God brought a grievous affliction upon him, and then he humbled himself greatly before the God of his Father and prayed unto Him. It may be […] will deal thus with that ungodly Child of thine. Some that have been notoriously wicked have been Converted and proved eminent Saints afterwards. Some of you have heard of Mr. Rogers of D•• •am in England; in his Young Days […] was very extravagant, inasmuch as […] kinsman who maintained him at the University, was so offended at him, as […] ⟨p. 95⟩[…] was resolved to cast him off, and to […] no further care of his Education; […] God met with him, made a Convert of him. This Man that had been […] wicked, became not only an eminent Convert, but an eminent Preacher of the Gospel, and was an instrument of […] more Souls to God, than perhaps any one Man in his Time: When it was so, his kinsman would often say, […] the sake of John Rogers, I will never […] of any Man.
Shall I say to thee, If thou should'st Despair now Life and Salvation is offered to thee, that Despair of thine, will be a greater Sin than ever thou hast committed ⟨p. 94⟩