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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.
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.
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 disswade from all Apostacy therefrom: And this he doth by setting before them the benefit of the one and the evil and danger of the other.
The danger of Apostasy is here very awfully described, by showing, that they that are wilful and total Apostates from the Truth, cannot attain unto Repentance, but they must lie under the Curse of God to all Eternity. And this the Apostle proveth by three Arguments; 1. From the Immutability of the Counsel of God; hence he saith, It is impossible for such to be renewed by repentance. He doth not only say, that it shall not be, but that it is impossible that it should be; which Expression may respect the unalterable Determination of God to the contrary, which maketh the thing impossible. 2. Because they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh; that is to say, they do it as much as in them lieth: And therefore, either God must give another Christ, or Christ must come again to suffer and satisfy for their sins, neither of which shall be, or else such sinners must remain under the Curse eternally. 3. The Apostle proveth this by showing the Justice and Equity which is in such proceedings;