A50164:26
Speedy repentance urged a sermon preached at Boston, December 29, 1689
Speedy repentance urged a sermon preached at Boston, December 29, 1689 : in the hearing and at the request of one Hugh Stone, [a mis]erable man [under a just sen]tense of [death] for a [tragical and] hor[rible murder : together with some account concerning the character, carriage, and execution of that unhappy malefactor : to which are added certain memorable providences relating to some other murders, & some great instances of repentance which have been seen amongst us / by Cotton Mather.]Speedy repentance urged a sermon preached at Boston, December 29, 1689 : in the hearing and at the request of one Hugh Stone, [a mis]erable man [under a just sen]tence of [death] for a [tragical and] hor[rible murder : together with some account concerning the character, carriage, and execution of that unhappy malefactor : to which are added certain memorable providences relating to some other murders, & some great instances of repentance which have been seen amonst us / by Cotton Mather.]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1690
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.
Conclusion 1.
[My Transgression] The Hebrew word for it Notes, a Transgression out of Pride: And my Conclusion from it is, […]. There is a wicked and a cursed Pride in the Sins of men.
[My Transgression] The Hebrew word for it Notes, a Transgression out of Pride: And my Conclusion from it is, 〈…〉. There is a wicked and a cursed Pride in the Sins of men.
The First of our sins was founded in a cursed Pride, & the most of our Sins are tainted with it. The first sin of Adam had Pride for a main ingredient of it. It was propounded unto him, in Gen. 3. 5. Ye shall be as Gods, Honour and Grandeur was the Bait which he was taken with, and his Pride affected a higher condition that that which his ⟨p. 10⟩Maker had placed him in. The first Sin of Satan too had Pride for its Original. Hence we are advised in 1 Tim 36. he that is lifted up with pride, falls into the condemnation of the Devil. It is thought that his Dissatisfaction at some Privileges, which he foresaw Mankind likely to be the subject of, was that which prompted him to the Rebellion and Apostasy, in which he is now King over the children of pride. Tis thus in all the Sins which those have been the Parents of; there lies Pride at the bottom of them all. What S• lemon says of one Sin, Only by Pride comes contention; the like may be said of All Sin, Mainly by Pride comes Transgression. Upon the Root of Pride it is, that there grows all the Disobedience to God, which is at any time committed in the World. It was the S•ying of the Prophet, in […]. If ye will not hear, my soul shall weep in secret Places for your pride. From our Pride it is, that we do not Hear the voice of God unto us in his Ordinances