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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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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 ⟨p. 106⟩Christ for His Elect, before they ever did Believe. The Lord says, Psal. 2. 8. Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine Inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. The Heathen Nations have been given to Christ, Whole Nations of Heathens have been Converted to Christ. The Roman Empire of Pagan became professedly Christian. Here is the reason of it, Christ's Interceding that it might be so. God said, Ask of me, and I will give thee the Heathen, and the uttermost parts of the Earth. Of Old Europe, in special Britain, was looked upon as being in the uttermost parts of the Earth; and there Christ has a People belonging to Him, according as God promised. Of latter times, these American parts of the World, where we are have been esteemed the uttermost parts of the Earth, these are the goings down of the Sun; but here in these uttermost parts of the Earth, God has given to Christ a Possession, Christ has taken Possession here, even among the very Indians;