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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.
Therefore this brings to the last Direction, which is this, Improve your time, work while it is day, John 9.4. while you have time, up and be doing: Let not this great work of your Salvation stand still, but while you have time, labour about it night and day, yea, every day follow this work Let not a day pass without something done this way, get every day a step nearer Heaven than you were before: And in special, the Lords-Day is a season which should be improved to this end. Indeed other works must not be done upon this day; servile works may not, but Spiritual-work, Soul-work, Salvation-work is this day to be attended. Improve then every opportunity, Oh, let not any slip, without some good done: And especially remember ⟨p. 233⟩the present opportunity, to take hold of it; concerning which you have heard more largely. To be sure this thing is your present duty. If a mans house were on fire, his present work would be to think how he might quench it: Oh! thy Immortal Soul is in danger of Hell-fire every moment! Thy poor Soul hangs over the Eternal flames, only by the twine thread of a rotten life (as I may so speak) if that break, thy Soul is dropped down into easeless and endless woe; and is it not thy present work to endeavour with might & main, that thy Soul may be delivered from this danger, before the Pit, from whence there is no Redemption, hath shut its mouth upon thee? Jesus, that delivers from the wrath to come, let him be thy Salvation!
Therefore this brings to the last Direction, which is this, Improve your time, work while it is day, John 9.4. while you have time, up and be doing: Let not this great work of your Salvation stand still, but while you have time, labour about it night and day, yea, every day follow this work Let not a day pass without something done this way, get every day a step nearer Heaven than you were before: And in special, the Lords-Day is a season which should be improved to this end. Indeed other works must not be done upon this day; servile works may not, but Spiritual-work, Soul-work, Salvation-work is this day to be attended. Improve then every opportunity, Oh, let not any slip, without some good done: And especially remember ⟨p. 233⟩