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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.
In the Doctrinal prosecution of this point, three things may be attended. 1. To show what is that way of Life which is here spoken of. 2. How it doth appear that but few shall find Eternal Life. 3. Whence it cometh to pass, that so few do find Eternal Life.
In the Doctrinal prosecution of this point, three things may be attended. 1. To shew what is that way of Life which is here spoken of. 2. How it doth appear that but few shall find Eternal Life. 3. Whence it cometh to pass, that so few do find Eternal Life.
Quest. 1. What is the way to life?
Answ. In general, That way which God hath prescribed unto men to walk in, that so they might obtain Eternal Life; Prov. 10.17. He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction. The instruction there spoken of, is Divine instruction. The meaning is, that if a man doth observe the Word ⟨p. 179⟩of God, then he is in the way of life. This way is laid out by Rule, and that Rule is none other but the Word of Truth. Hence it is called, The Way of God, and the way of the Lord; that is to say, the way which the Lord hath appointed men to walk in, that so they may be saved. Particularly,
Answ. In general, That way which God hath prescribed unto men to walk in, that so they might obtain Eternel Life; Prov. 10.17. He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction. The instruction there spoken of, is Divine instruction. The meaning is, that if a man doth observe the Word