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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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4. It is a Cursed Sin. If there be a Curse for him that smites his Neighbour secretly, Deut. 27.4. then he is double cursed that kills him. The first Man that was born was a Murderer. Gen. 4.11. And now art thou cursed from the Earth. He was an excommunicate Person, banished from the place of God's Public Worship. God set a Mark upon bloody Cain, Gen. 24▪ 15. Some think it was Horror of Mind, which (above all Sins) doth accompany the Sin of Blood. Others think this Mark was a continual Shaking and trembling in his Flesh, which was a Mark of Infamy God set upon him. He carried a Curse along with him.
4. It is a Cursed Sin. If there be a Curse for him that smites his Neighbour secretly, Deut. 27.4. then he is double cursed that kills him. The first Man that was born was a Murderer. Gen. 4.11. And now art thou cursed from the Earth. He was an excommunicate Person, banish'd from the place of God's Publick Worship. God set a Mark upon bloody Cain, Gen. 24▪ 15. Some think it was Horror of Mind, which (above all Sins) doth accompany the Sin of Blood. Others think this Mark was a continual Shaking and trembling in his Flesh, which was a Mark of Infamy God set upon him. He carried a Curse along with him.
5. It is a Wrath-procuring Sin, 2 Kings 24.4.