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Impenitent sinners warned of their misery and summoned to judgment delivered in two sermons,…
Impenitent sinners warned of their misery and summoned to judgment delivered in two sermons, the former on the Sabbath, Nov. 6, the other on the lecture following, Nov. 10, 1698, occasioned by the amazing instance of a miserable creature who stood condemned for murdering her infant begotten in whoredom : to which are subjoined the solemn words spoken to her on those opportunities, published for the warning of others / by Samuel Willard.Impenitent sinners warned of their misery and summoned to judgment delivered in two sermons, the former on the Sabbath, Nov. 6, the other on the lecture following, Nov. 10, 1698, occasioned by the amazing instance of a miserable creature who stood condemned for murdering her infant begotten in whoredom : to which are subjoyned the solemn words spoken to her on those opportunities, published for the warning of others / by Samuel Willard.
printed by B. Green & J. Allen, 1698
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.
Now men are, according to their behaviour, with respect to this discovery ⟨p. 34⟩which God hath made of himself to man, and obligation which he hath laid him under, disposed of everlastingly: In order unto which they are to pass under a Trial. Where there is a Law given to reasonable Creatures, established with Sanctions, there must needs be a Judgment, in which their relation thereto is to be examined, and a retribution made to them accordingly. Either they have complied with the Rule given to them, and are to receive a reward of life; or they have revolted therefrom, & have not sought and made their peace, according to the tenor of the Covenant of Grace; and then they must receive the wages of sin, which is death, as we are told, Rom. 6. 23. The wages of sin is death. He therefore that acknowledgeth a Government of God over rational beings, must needs believe that there shall be a Judgment, or a time of Trial and Recompenses.
Now men are, according to their behaviour, with respect to this discovery ⟨p. 34⟩which God hath made of himself to man, and obligation which he hath laid him under, disposed of everlastingly: In order unto which they are to pass under a Trial. Where there is a Law given to reasonable Creatures, established with Sanctions, there must needs be a Judgment, in which their relation thereto is to be examined, and a retribution made to them accordingly. Either they have complied with the Rule given to them, and are to receive a reward of life; or they have revolted therefrom, & have not sought and made their peace, according to the tenour of the Covenant of Grace; and then they must receive the wages of sin, which is death, as we are told, Rom. 6. 23. The wages of sin is death. He therefore that acknowledgeth a Government of God over rational beings, must needs believe that there shall be a Judgment, or a time of Trial and Recompences.