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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
A Citation TO Judgment after DEATH. › DOCTRINE. › Application 1: USE. 1.
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.
Do careless sinners, who trifle away a day of grace, without regard to their Souls and Eternity; who live contented in their state of Unregeneracy, and take no heed to make their peace with God, or seek to secure an interest in Christ, and that Salvation which is wrought out by him, by giving all diligence to make their calling and election sure; expect shortly to be called to a reckoning for their Talents received, & be doomed accordingly? certainly no. And doth not the truth now under consideration say, that all these labour of madness in their hearts whiles they live?
2. Here we see one great reason why there is so much horrid wickedness committed in the ⟨p. 48⟩World, the root of it indeed is in that Original Sin, which the hearts of all men are by nature full of, and is a fountain that is always sending forth its bitter streams: and he was never rightly acquainted with his own naughtiness, who is not led by the observation of his actual prevarication to the source from which all do derive: However, there are those restraints under which the Corruption that is within men is held back from breaking forth into prodigious Enormities, which is none of the least of these favours which God indulgeth the children of men withal, but for which all humane Societies must disband, and one, and not the least of these, is the d•ead of an after reckoning imprinted on the Consciences of men, by which they are kept in awe; when therefore this chain, with which God ties men up, and sets bounds to their violence, is taken off, and men are insensible of any impressions from it, what will not their impetuous lusts make them dare to do? It is the Psalmists observation in Psal. 36. 1. The transgression of the wicked saith in my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes, and did men think of, or believe the terrors of the Lord, they would surely make them afraid; were the expectation of a future judgment, and a strict reckoning then to be taken of men, of all that ever they have done, realities to them, they would not dare to do as they do. Would the bold Sinner dare to run himself upon the point of the sword of revenging Justice, if he knew that it is for his life: Would