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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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Consider. 5. The evil and danger which is in refusing to entertain Jesus Christ: Every knock that Christ hath given at thy door, will sink thy Soul so much the deeper into Hell, if thou refusest him now. You may slight Christ, but the day is coming, when slight him if you can or dare. They that were invited to the Marriage-Feast, made light of it, and went away, one to his Farm, and another to his Merchandise, &c. Mat. ⟨p. 108⟩22.5. so now, when the motion of the Gospel is tendered to you, you may make light of it, and go away to your Shops and Ships, and buying and Selling, and never mind whether Christ be formed in you or no. But the day is at hand, when every neglect of Christ shall be heavier than Mountains of lead upon thy miserable Soul. Be it also known to you, that if you will not hear Christ now, he will not hear you another day; see that solemn Scripture, and tremble at it, Luke 13.25, 27. When once the Master of the house it risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, and to say, Lord, Lord, open to us: and he shall answer, I say unto you, I know you not, whence you are, depart from me all you workers of iniquity. Thus it will be at the last day, thou wilt cry, Lord, Lord, open to me! Oh, how thou wilt cry, Lord, Lord, let me go to Heaven: But the Lord will say to thee, Remember thou sinful Wretch, remember, there was a time when I called to thee, but thou wouldest not open the door of thy heart to me, and therefore now the door of Heaven shall not be opened to thy Soul: Thou didst not care for my company when time was, and therefore now depart from me.
Consider. 5. The evil and danger which is in refusing to entertain Jesus Christ: Every knock that Christ hath given at thy door, will sink thy Soul so much the deeper into Hell, if thou refusest him now. You may slight Christ, but the day is coming, when slight him if you can or dare. They that were invited to the Marriage-Feast, made light of it, and went away, one to his Farm, and another to his Merchandize, &c. Mat. ⟨p. 108⟩