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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.
Matth. 7.14. —Few there be that find it.
These words are part of that large and blessed Sermon which Christ preached on the Mount; the whole Sermon is full of Heavenly matter. Amongst other things, we have the Parable concerning the two Gates, and the two Ways; namely, the Wide and the Strait Gate, and the Broad and Narrow Way, in this, and in the foregoing Verse; where our Saviour doth compare all the men in the World, to a company of Travellers, that are walking some one way, and some another. Thus it is with men, they are all Travelling to another World, they are all walking towards Eternity, but in contrary ways: Some are going towards Eternal ⟨p. 177⟩Life; others are going towards Eternal Death. Wherefore Christs scope in these Verses, is, to persuade men to enter in at the Strait Gate, and to walk in the Narrow way.
THese words are part of that large and blessed Sermon which Christ preached on the Mount; the whole Sermon is full of Heavenly matter. Amongst other things, we have the Parable concerning the two Gates, and the two Ways; namely, the Wide and the Strait Gate, and the Broad and Narrow Way, in this, and in the foregoing Verse; where our Saviour doth compare all the men in the World, to a company of Travellers, that are walking some one way, and some another. Thus it is with men, they are all Travelling to another World, they are all walking towards Eternity, but in contrary ways: Some are going towards Eternal ⟨p. 177⟩Life; others are going towards Eternal Death. Wherefore Christs scope in these Verses, is, to perswade men to enter in at the Strait Gate, and to walk in the Narrow way.