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A call to the tempted. A sermon on the horrid crime of self-murder, preached…
A call to the tempted. A sermon on the horrid crime of self-murder, preached on a remarkable occasion, / by the memorable Dr. Increase Mather. ; And now published from his notes, for a charitable stop to suicides. ; [Five lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1723
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.
DO one thing more, Discover the Temptations of the Devil. Make a Discovery, not unadvisedly unto all the World; but unto some Faithful Minister, or unto some other Able Christian. One that cut his own Throat a while ago, said before his Expiration; O! That I had Told, how I was Tempted! If I had, I believe I should never have come to This!
Fourthly. ABOVE All, a True Faith is to be Laboured for. By Faith Embrace an offered SAVIOUR; This will keep thee from the Destroyer. Being by Faith, safe in the Hands of thy Saviour, the Devil shall not pluck thee out of those hands. Tis directed; Eph. VI.16. Above ⟨p. 17⟩all, take the shield of Faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery Darts of the Wicked One. As by Faith we obtain a Victory over the World; [1 Joh. V.4.] So we obtain a Victory over Satan too. He has not such Power over a true Believer, as he has over others.
ACT Faith on the Victory of thy SAVIOUR over Satan; Hoping and Looking for a share in That!