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Some important truths about conversion, delivered in sundry sermons, / by Increase Mather, D.D.…
Some important truths about conversion, delivered in sundry sermons, / by Increase Mather, D.D. teacher of a church at Boston, in New-England ; With a preface by Dr. Owen.Some important truths about conversion, delivered in sundry sermons, / by Increase Mather, D.D. teacher of a church at Boston, in New-England ; With a praeface by Dr. Owen.
Boston: printed by John Allen for John Edwards, 1721
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therefore cannot expect other, but that treasures of wrath will be laid up against them, and one day laid out upon them. In a word, this sin of slighting the Gospel, is virtually and causally all sin; for all a mans other sins would be forgiven, if this were not superadded to the rest. If men did embrace the Gospel, they should also receive the Remission of sins. Unbelief is the greatest sin that ever any of you were guilty of in your lives: This binds the guilt of all sins against ⟨p. 68⟩the Law, upon a mans Conscience forever: Now by Unbelief is not meant, the doubting whether our sins are forgiven, but the refusing of the motion of the Gospel, when the Gospel freely offers Christ and Pardon; Life and Heaven with him: Now to neglect him, and to lie out from him, to prefer the World, or it may be, a base Lust, before the blessed Son of God, this is that Unbelief which provoketh God more than transgressions of the Law doth.
therefore cannot expect other, but that treasures of wrath will be laid up against them, and one day laid out upon them. In a word, this sin of slighting the Gospel, is virtually and causally all sin; for all a mans other sins would be forgiven, if this were not superadded to the rest. If men did embrace the Gospel, they should also receive the Remission of sins. Unbelief is the greatest sin that ever any of you were guilty of in your lives: This binds the guilt of all sins against ⟨p. 68⟩the Law, upon a mans Concience forever: Now by Unbelief is not meant, the doubting whether our sins are forgiven, but the refusing of the motion of the Gospel, when the Gospel freely offers Christ and Pardon; Life and Heaven with him: Now to neglect him, and to lie out from him, to prefer the World, or it may be, a base Lust, before the blessed Son of God, this is that Unbelief which provoketh God more than transgressions of the Law doth.
2. Because to slight the Gospel, is to sin against the remedy. There is but one only Remedy in all the World for a poor sinner; namely, that which the Gospel tells us of,