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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
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.
These words are part of that Epistle, which the Lord Jesus Christ sent from Heaven to the Church of Laodicea. In which Epistle he doth both convince and exhort them. First, he convinceth them, and that of two evils; especially, 1 Of their Formality and Hypocrisy, verse 15, 16.2. Of their Pride and Self-conceit, verse 17. Having convinced •em ⟨p. 88⟩of these evils, he proceeds (in vers. 18, 19.) to exhort them unto Repentance, and that they would repair to him for help and healing of these things, which were amiss among them, and which he had reproved them for.
THese words are part of that Epistle, which the Lord Jesus Christ sent from Heaven to the Church of Laodicea. In which Epistle he doth both convince and exhort them. First, he convinceth them, and that of two evils; especially, 1 Of their Formality and Hypocrisie, verse 15, 16.2. Of their Pride and Self-conceit, verse 17. Having convinced •em ⟨p. 88⟩of these evils, he proceeds (in vers. 18, 19.) to exhort them unto Repentance, and that they would repair to him for help and healing of these things, which were amiss among them, and which he had reproved them for.
In this Verse that Exhortation set down, in the two foregoing Verses, if further urged from a double Argument, 1. From the gracious opportunity which they then had, inasmuch as Christ was then amongst them; in the first part of the Verse. 2. From the good and benefit which would come thereby; in the latter part of the Verse.
For opening of the words, before we come to the Doctrine from them, we shall only enquire, what is here meant by the Door, when Christ saith, If any man open the Door, &c.