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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.
(3.) This Salvation imply's a deliverance from Death. Where Sin reigns […] is unto death, but where it does no• reign it is not so. Christ says, Joh.8.5• ▪ He that keeps my saying •e shall never […] death. It is true, as to the death of […] body, natural death, Believers on Chri•• are as much subject to that as other Me• but they are delivered from the curse• it, the sting of it; their death is not • cursed, but a blessed death. Rev. 14.1•. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lo•• They are delivered from the Seco•• Death; on them the Second death has […] power: they are delivered from t•• death of the Soul. As David speaks Psal▪ 116.8. Thou hast delivered my soul fro• death. Every Believer his Soul is del• vered from death. What is the dea•• […] the body compared to the death […] the Soul? The death of the body it […] soon over, but the Second Death, whi•• ⟨p. 33⟩•iezes on the Soul, that is more tormenting, more painful than any bodily death, •nd yet will never be over. Rev. 14. 11. The smoke of their torment ascendeth for ever and ever. But this death Believers are delivered from.