N01732:95
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.
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.
It is added, If the son make you […] then you shall be free indeed. Till Chr••• the Son of God renew the will of […] Sinner▪ he has not a will to that which is Spiritually good. The will of Man […] the worst thing in him. Jer. 17. 9. […] heart is desperately wicked, and deceitful above all things, who can know it? Mat. […] 19. Out of the heart proceed evil thought▪ murders, adulteries, fornications, […] false witness, blasphemies. Can Grace […] Salvation proceed out of such an hea•• as that is? The Apostle says, 1 Cor. […] 7. Who maketh thee to differ? If thou ha•• Grace and another has none, Who ma•• thee to differ? The Proud free will may say, I made my self to differ, I ma•• use of my free will, when others d•• not. The Psalmist says, Psal. 1•5. 1. […] unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto […] Name be glory, because of thy mercy. But now if Men could Convert and so Sav•• themselves by the power of their ow• free will, they might say, Not to th• Mercy of God, but to us be glory give• ▪ The Apostle says, Rom. 9. 16. It is not […] ⟨p. 81⟩him that willeth nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. Whereas if the Conversion, and Salvation of Men did depend on their own free will, and not wholly on the Grace of God, the Apostles words might be inverted, and it might be said, it is not wholly God that shows Mercy, but of him that willeth, and of him that runneth. Nothing can be more contrary to the Scriptures than to say, That the Conversion of Men depends on themselves, that Regeneration is from the Power of their own free will. If a Man is indeed Regenerated, He is born not of the will of the flesh; not by the power of his own carnal will, but of God.