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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.
You may see in the former Verse, that the good man was surprised with a pang of Unbelief; and while the temptation and corruption prevailed upon him, he manifests much impatience and murmuring of spirit: Now saith God to him, if thou wilt return from this evil frame of spirit, if thou wilt convert thee from these evils, then will I again make use of thee in my service, &c So that a very good man may be distempered with particular Corruptions, so as to need a returning & converting from them to the Lord again. Yea, it is a sad Truth, that a Godly man may possibly be under the present power of some Corruption, in such a degree, as that it is impossible for him to get to Heaven until that corruption be further mortified. This is plainly affirmed by the Text, Christ declareth to his Disciples, that except that Lust of Pride were further mortified in them, they should not enter into Heaven. Some sins which true Believers are guilty of, they must and shall repent of them before they go out of this World, that so they may be fit for Heaven.
You may see in the former Verse, that the good man was surprized with a pang of Unbelief; and while the temptation and corruption prevailed upon him, he manifests much impatiency and murmuring of spirit: Now saith God to him, if thou wilt return from this evil frame of spirit, if thou wilt convert thee from these evils, then will I again make use of thee in my service, &c So that a very good man may be distempered with particular Corruptions, so as to need a returning & converting from them to the Lord again. Yea, it is a sad Truth, that a Godly man may possibly be under the present power of some Corruption, in such a degree, as that it is impossible for him to get to Heaven until that coruption be further mortified. This is plainly affirmed by the Text, Christ declareth to his Disciples, that except that Lust of Pride were further mortified in them, they should not enter into Heaven. Some sins which true Believers are guilty of, they must and shall repent of them before they go out of this World, that so they may be fit for Heaven.
Again, Grace may be exceeding weak in a true Believer, & in that case a further conversion ⟨p. 17⟩