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A dying legacy of a minister to his dearly beloved people, showing, I. That…A dying legacy of a minister to his dearly beloved people, shewing, I. That…
A dying legacy of a minister to his dearly beloved people, showing, I. That true believers on Jesus Christ may be assured, of the salvation of their souls. II. That spiritual wisdom, or grace in the soul, is of all things the most desirable. III. That there is none whose dignity and glory may be compared with that which belongs to our Lord Jesus Christ. / Being the three last sermons preached by Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Five lines from Hebrews]A dying legacy of a minister to his dearly beloved people, shewing, I. That true believers on Jesus Christ may be asured, of the salvation of their souls. II. That spiritual wisdom, or grace in the soul, is of all things the most desireable. III. That there is none whose dignity and glory may be compared with that which belongs to our Lord Jesus Christ. / Being the three last sermons preached by Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Five lines from Hebrews]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for J. Edwards, 1722
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USE I.
IF Believers shall have Eternal Life given to them, what shall we think will become of Unbelievers, that ⟨p. 13⟩continue in a state of Sin and of Unbelief, Shall they have Eternal Life? No, GOD in the Gospel says, He that Believes shall be Saved, and be that Believers not shall be Damned. The Unbeliever is under a Sentence of Death. He is Condemned already, Joh. 3. 18. Not only shall he be Condemned hereafter in the hearing of the whole World in the Last and Great Day, but he is Condemned already, the Sentence is already past upon him, it is not removed but abides on him, as long as he abides in his Unbelief, if he Die in his Unbelief he shall certainly Perish; God has not only said but Sworn it, that the Unbeliever shall not be Saved, Heb. 3. 18. To whom sware be that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not. Alas! The saddest Punishment that can be must befal• […] the Great Day. Men ⟨p. 14⟩may be ready to think if they ar• Guilty of such and such Horrid Crimes, if they were Drunkards, Swearers, or the like, then they shall have a Dreadful Punishment in Hell; Ah, so shall Unbeliever too, though they may have been very Civil and Moral in the World, yet if they Die in an Estate of Sin and Unbelief, their Punishment will be more Intolerable than that of Sodom and Gomorrah; Christ has said so,