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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.
5. The Truth asserted will be ma•• fest, if we duly consider the Soveraign• of GOD. He has an absolute Domini•• over His Creatures: GOD has as great Dominion over all His Creatures, as the Potter has over his clay, and shall […] clay say to the Potter, What dost th•• do? Why hast thou made me thu• May not the Potter make one vessel […] ⟨p. 45⟩honour, and another vessel to dishonour, as pleases Him: And may not the Great GOD make this Man a vessel of honour, another Man a vessel of dishonour; and who may dare say to Him, What dost thou? There have been Men that have pretended to absolute power, and dominion, over other Men. Nebuchadnezzar was such an one. Dan.5.19. It is said of him, Whom be would be killed, and whom he would be kept alive. The Householder said, Mat.20.15. May not I do with my own, what • will. All the Creatures in the World are Gods own, therefore He may do with them, and to them, according to what His Sovereign Will & Pleasure shall be. Job 41.11. Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine, says God: then God may do with His Creatures as seemeth Him good. Moses wonders at the free Grace of God toward Israel, that He should single them out from all other Nations in the World, to become His peculiar People, Deut. 10.14,15. The Elect of God, are singled out to become the subjects of His eternal Salvation: This proceeds from free love, and immerited favour.
5. The Truth asserted will be ma•• fest, if we duly consider the Soveraign• of GOD. He has an absolute Domini•• over His Creatures: GOD has as great Dominion over all His Creatures, as the Potter has over his clay, and shall clay say to the Potter, What dost th do? Why hast thou made me thu May not the Potter make one vessel