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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sovereign Grace Proclaimed. › Sermon 1: SERMON, I.Soveraign Grace Proclaimed. › Sermon 1: SERMON, I.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SERMON, I.
EPHESIANS, II. 8. By Grace ye are Saved:—
THE Apostle in the beginning of this Chapter declares to the Ephesians what they were before they had Faith in Jesus Christ, that they were dead in trespasses & sins, and were Children of wrath; he also declares what the were since they had true Faith in Christ they were brought into a state of Salvation: Which Salvation, in the words before us, is described from the Supreme Cause and Original of it; Namely, […] Grace of God. The holy heart of […] ⟨p. 20⟩Apostle was much set upon that Subject of Grace, therefore he mentions it no less than three times in four Verses. In the 5th verse rather than not mention it he brings it in by way of Parenthesis: He no sooner speaks of Salvation but he thinks of Grace, as we see in verse 5,7,8. By Grace here, is not meant that Grace which is wrought in Believers, or Sanctification; although' it is true there is no Salvation without that; without holiness no man shall see the Lord: but hereby is meant Grace without us, or the Grace of God. So then the Doctrine before us is,
THE Apostle in the begining of this Chapter declares to the Ephesians what they were before they had Faith in Jesus Christ, that they were dead in trespasses & sins, and were Children of wrath; he also declares what the were since they had true Faith in Christ they were brought into a state of Salvation: Which Salvation, in the words before us, is described from the Suprea Cause and Original of it; Namely, Grace of God. The holy heart of