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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
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Sovereign Grace Proclaimed. › Sermon 1: SERMON, I.Soveraign Grace Proclaimed. › Sermon 1: SERMON, I.
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4. If we consider where God finds His Elect when He first begins to bestow Salvation on them, We must needs say it is from Grace that they are Saved. Where does God find His Elect when He comes to Convert them? He finds them in the High Ways. Luke 14. 23. The Lord said to the servant, go out into the high ways, and compel them to come in. Use arguments with them to persuade them to come in to the Lord Jesus Christ. ▪God ⟨p. 44⟩finds them in Prisons, in Dungeons, […] He comes to save them. Zech. 9. 11. […] the blood of the Covenant I have sent […] thy prisoners out of the pit. What a c•• dition does He find them in? In a wo•• loathsome condition. Ezek.16.5,6. I […] thee, (says the Lord) when thou […] cast out to the loathing of thy person, […] when thou wast in thy blood, I said unto the Live. God finds them among His E•• mies when He comes to Convert th•• Col.1.21. Ye were sometimes enemies. […] you are not so now, you may th•• Christ & Grace for it. God finds th•• in the Devils Kingdom, doing the Dev•• drudgery, than, and there He calls the• God calls them out of that Kingdom darkness into His own blessed Kingdom sure this is an evidence of glorious Gra•• ▪
4. If we consider where God finds His Elect when He first begins to bestow Salvation on them, We must needs say it is from Grace that they are Saved. Where does God find His Elect when He comes to Convert them? He finds them in the High Ways.