Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when…

Name: Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when…
Author: Increase Mather

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]

Increase Mather 1639–1723Boston: printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1719

[2], v, [1], 128 p. ; 15 cm. (12mo) · 27k words · Evans 2053

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A Plain Discourse Concerning every Man's BIRTH SIN.

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Th•• we see the Doctrine cleared in the particulars that have been mentioned.

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FOR APPLICATION.

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USE, I. Hence No Man in the World has cause to be Proud, but to walk Humbl• and Mournfully before the Lord, and to […] ashamed. For Sin has made him to […] a vile Creature, which he has cause […] confess and bewail. As Job did, Job.4• ▪4. Behold I am vile. Every Man ma• say so, Behold I am vile; and he was • vile Creature as soon as he came into th• World, a loathsome Creature in th• sight of God. The Lord here says by the Prophet, I saw thee when thou was• cast out to the loathing of thy person in the day that thou wast born. Every Man by Nature is that loathsome Person. It i• true that Actual Sins makes Men loathsome before the Lord. Prov. 13. 5. The wicked i• loathsome. Original Sin much ⟨p. 17⟩more. Is not a Plague sore loathsome? What then is the Plague of the heart. Is not a Leprosy a loathsome disease? What then is the Leprosy of the Soul. In the Chapter concerning the Plague of Leprosy, viz.

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