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The wicked mans portion. Or A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston in…
The wicked mans portion. Or A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston in New-England the 18th day of the 1 month 1674. when two men were executed, who had murdered their master.) Wherein is showed that excess in wickedness doth bring untimely death. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a Church of Christ. ; [Six lines of quotations]The wicked mans portion. Or A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston in New-England the 18th day of the 1 moneth 1674. when two men were executed, who had murthered their master.) Wherein is shewed that excesse in wickedness doth bring untimely death. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a Church of Christ. ; [Six lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1675
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.
2. Another error on the left hand is Foolishness. Neither be thou Foolish. Heb. [Greek or Hebrew] h. e. Neither be thou a Fool, because all wickedness is folly, and sinners are Fools, 1as afterwards we shall show. And this exhortation is likewise pressed by an argument taken from the raiserable end that such sinners come to at last, God in his righteous Providence doth many Times so order that they die before their Time. Why shouldest thou die before thy Time? It is as if it were said, Though it be so that here and there a wicked man doth prolong his life in his wickedness, yet for any one thence to embolden himself in sin, is the greatest folly imaginable, for usually it falls out otherwise, that wickedness doth shorten the days of those that are guilty of it.
2. Another error on the left hand is Foolishness. Neither be thou Foolish. Heb. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 h. e. Neither be thou a Fool, because all wickedn•ss is folly, and sinners are Fools, 1as afterwards we shall shew. And this exhortation is likewise pressed by an argument taken from the raiserable end that such sinners come to at last, God in his righteous Providence doth many Times so order that they dy before their Time. Why shouldest thou dy before thy Time? It is as if it were said, Though it be so that here and there a wicked man doth prolong his life in his wickedness, yet for any one thence to embolden himself in sin, is the greatest folly imaginable, for usually it falls out otherwise, that wickedness doth shorten the dayes of those that are guilty of it.
- 1Yamet•i aliquando •it ut impro•i in suis •c•l•ribus Co•sene••••t, men [Greek or Hebrew] it ut imp borum brv's & contracts vita it. Cartwright in Loc.