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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.
They that live unprofitably under the Gospel, are in a very dangerous condition.
Hebr. 6.7, 8. For the earth which drinketh in the rain tha• cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned.
Hebr. 6.7, 8. For the earth which drinketh in the rain tha• cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which beareth thorns and bryers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned.
The scope of the Apostle in this Chapter, is to exhort the believing Hebrews unto Constancy in their Profession of the Christian Faith; ⟨p. 56⟩and to dehort and dissuade from all Apostasy therefrom: And this he doth by setting before them the benefit of the one and the evil and danger of the other.