The blessings of a soul in health and prospering to be supremely wish'd for. A sermon deliver'd (in part) at a family-meeting in private; Boston, Mar. 3. 1741,2. / By Thomas Foxcroft. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]

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Author:	Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769.
Title:	The blessings of a soul in health and prospering to be supremely wish'd for. A sermon deliver'd (in part) at a family-meeting in private; Boston, Mar. 3. 1741,2. / By Thomas Foxcroft. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
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Print source:	The blessings of a soul in health and prospering to be supremely wish'd for. A sermon deliver'd (in part) at a family-meeting in private; Boston, Mar. 3. 1741,2. / By Thomas Foxcroft. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts] Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769. Boston:: Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green, in Queenstreet over against the prison, 1742.
Subject terms:	Soul. Christian life. Sermons -- 1741.
URL:	https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N04018.0001.001
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The Best Wish, A Soul in Health & prospering.

DOCTRINE I. There is such a Thing as the Prosperity and Health of the Soul.—The Apostle ascribes it to his well-beloved Gaius; Even as thy Soul prospereth.

USE I. What has been said, ministers Occasion for a mournful Remembrance of Adam's Apostasy, and calls us to lament the ruinous State of human Nature since the Fall.

USE II. We have Reason to admire the infinite Mercy of God, in raising up a second Adam, to restore our Souls from the Ruins of the Fall; and shou'd adore his amazing Wisdom and Power and Holiness in the Recovery of apostate Creatures.

USE III. What Joy and Satisfaction shou'd we take in the Conversion of Sinners; and how ought we to mourn the Case of unconverted Souls?

USE IV. What has been said, shou'd put us all upon solemn Inquiry into the State of our Souls, whether it be a State of Conversion, or not.

USE V. Let it be a Word of Exhortation, suited to your various Characters and Cases, whether converted or unconverted, whether convinced or unconvinced.

DOCT. III. The most prosperous and healthful Souls on Earth are capa∣ble of still further spiritual Improvements; which accordingly we should wish for them.

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