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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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Argum. 2. Because a Natural Unconverted man, hath no Interest in Jesus Christ: There is no Salvation to be expected, but by Christ, Acts 4.12. neither is there Salvation in any ••her; for there is none other name under Heaven, whereby we must be saved. If ever a man would get to Heaven, he must be sure to go in at the right door: Now Christ is that Door; John 10.9. Christ himself there saith, I am the Door, by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. And again, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, John 14.6. Men may imagine there are divers ways which lead to Heaven; but it will be found true, ⟨p. 31⟩that there is, and always was, but one way to Heaven, and that is the way of Faith unfeigned in Jesus Christ the Son of God Now as for a Natural Unconverted man, he hath no real Interest in Christ; he is a miserable stranger to the life of union and communion with the Son of God: Therefore the Apostle, declaring what the Ephesians were by Nature, saith, they were without Christ, Ephes. 2.1 2. and the same Apostle saith to the Corinthians, If any man be in Christ, he is a new Creature, 2 Cor. 5.17. They therefore that are not become new Creatures, but do remain still in their old, natural, sinful estate, are not in Christ; and therefore living and dying in their present states, they shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Argum. 2. Because a Natural Ʋnconverted man, hath no Interest in Jesus Christ: There is no Salvation to be expected, but by Christ, Acts 4.12. neither is there Salvation in any ••her; for there is none other name under Heaven, whereby we must be saved. If ever a man would get to Heaven, he must be sure to go in at the right door: Now Christ is that Door;