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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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PROP. II. That the Elect of God are is a peculiar manner the Subjects of the Intercession of our Lord Jesus Christ. As He Died for them, so as not for others in the World, Joh. 10. 15. I lay down my life for the sheep. Not for the Goats, but for the Sheep, even so He Intercedes for them so as not for others. As the High Priest when He entered into the Holiest of all, had the Names of all the Tribes of Israel on his Breast; so now that Christ is in the Holy of Holies, He has the Names of all the Elect of God written on His Heart. Consider the Elect of God.
1. As Unconverted. Christ intercedes for them while they are in an Unconverted Estate. Joh. 17. 20. I pray, (says Christ) not for these alone. Not for my ⟨p. 105⟩Disciples only, or for them that do Before; but for them also which shall Behave. Therefore it is, that they do Believe; that is the reason the Elect of […] are made Believers. They shall not […], not one of them, in an Estate of Sin […] unbelief, because Jesus Christ has interceded for them, that they might Believe. We have a remarkable Scripture discerning this, Isa. 53. 12. He made Intercession for the transgressors. That Scripture was gloriously fulfilled, when Christ interceded for those heinous transgressors, that Crucified Him. He ••gged for them, that God would forgive them; and God did forgive many of them. Some of those very Men that […] a hand in Crucifying our Lord Jesus Christ, they were Converted and their Sins were forgiven. We find, Acts 2. Peter said to those Jews, you have with wicked hands Crucified Him, whom God hath made both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this they were wicked in their heart, they Repented, they did seek to God for pardoning Mercy and were pardoned. Here then was a wonderful fruit of the Intercession of