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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.
Every Man may say so, that Sins more than the heirs of his head have taken hold on him; and there is not any one of all those Sins but it has deserved Hell. Rom.6.23. The wages of sin is death. And what death? Death Temporal, Spiritual & Eternal; the first, and the second Death is due for every Sin: Then if the Lord is pleased to bestow Salvation on Men it must needs proceed from Grace, and not from any desert of theirs.
3. The Truth is further evident, if we consider what Man is, what a poor Creature Man is. Psal.8.4. What is man that thou art mindful of him? The Original ⟨p. 42⟩word is, Enosh, which signifies M•• rabble Man. Men are in the Script••• compared to the meanest, the most de••• cable Creatures in the World; […] Worm: I am a worm and no man, […] King David: they are compared to […] hoppers, that are despicable Creatu••• Isai. 40.22. The Lord sitteth in the […] of the earth, the inhabitants the• are as grasshoppers before him. What Man? Psal.39.5. Verily every man at best estate is altogether vanity. Not […] Men, but every Man, and that at his […] estate; is not only a vain thing, but […] it self: Then if God bestows Salvation upon any, it is certainly from Gra•• ▪ It is Grace in the Great GOD so much to look upon His Creatures.