N01732:39
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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Those old Heretick• the Pelagians said, There was no evil i• it, and that its a foolish thing for a Ma• to be troubled for Original Sin. And […] is related concerning Bellarmine, whe• he would set himself to be humbled before God, he could not see that he ha• cause to be humbled on the account […] any Sin that he had been guilty of, bu• that so he might have something to […] humbled for, he would reflect on the follies of his Childhood. Ah! Miserable Man! he knew n•t his own heart, […] knew not what he was by Nature. Th• holy Apostle Paul was of another judgment; ⟨p. 19⟩he laments it, he went mourning all his days because of his Original Sin, and cries out, Oh wretched man that I am! What! You a wretched Man, that have done so much good in the World, been an Instrument of Converting many Souls! Ah but (says he) I have Original Sin remaining in me, that makes me cry out, O• wretched man that I am! The Lords Servants, yea, the best of them should have an humbling remembrance of what once they were, Eph. 2.11. Their Souls should •e humbled within them, when they remember the day when they were naked and are, and polluted in their blood, Ezek.16.2•.
Those old Heretick• the Pelagians said, There was no evil i• it, and that its a foolish thing for a Ma• to be troubled for Original Sin. And 〈…〉 is related concerning Bellarmine, whe• he would set himself to be humbled before God, he could not see that he ha cause to be humbled on the account any Sin that he had been guilty of, bu that so he might have something to humbled for, he would reflect on the follies of his Childhood. Ah! Miserable Man! he knew nt his own heart, knew not what he was by Nature. Th holy Apostle Paul was of another judgment;