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A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures
A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...
London: printed by E.H. for Nathanael Ranew, 1693
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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.
1Seventhly, and lastly, Consider this; Damnation for little Sins will be most aggravated, and most intolerable Damnation. Oh, will it not be a most cutting Consideration ⟨p. 81⟩to the Soul in Hell, when it shall think, here I lie and fry for ever in unquenchable Flames, for the gratifying of my self in that which I called little Sins! Fool that ever I was, that I should account any Sin little that would bring to this place of Torment! There's another of my fellow-wretched Sinners, between whom and me there was as much difference as there was between me and a true Saint; He profane and daringly wicked, I honest and civil; and yet for allowing my self in those Sins to which the World encouraged me, and called little Sins, the same Hell that holds him, shall hold me for ever. Oh, the dreadful Severity of God! Oh wretched Folly and Madness of mine! Oh insufferable Torments and Anguish! Believe •t, thus will those that are damned for small and little Sins, reflect upon their former Lives; such will be their dismal Reflections, and such will be yours also; expect no other, if being warned of the great Evil that there is in little Sins, you will yet persist in them without Repentance.
1Seventhly, and lastly, Consider this; Damnation for little Sins will be most aggravated, and most intolerable Damnation. Oh, will it not be a most cutting Consideration ⟨p. 81⟩to the Soul in Hell, when it shall think, here I lie and fry for ever in unquenchable Flames, for the gratifying of my self in that which I call'd little Sins! Fool that ever I was, that I should account any Sin little that would bring to this place of Torment! There's another of my fellow-wretched Sinners, between whom and me there was as much difference as there was between me and a true Saint; He prophane and daringly wicked, I honest and civil; and yet for allowing my self in those Sins to which the World encouraged me, and called little Sins, the same Hell that holds him, shall hold me for ever. Oh, the dreadful Severity of God! Oh wretched Folly and Madness of mine! Oh insufferable Torments and Anguish! Believe •t, thus will those that are damned for small and little Sins, reflect upon their former Lives; such will be their dismal Reflections, and such will be yours also; expect no other, if being warned of the great Evil that there is in little Sins, you will yet persist in them without Repenance.