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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. A sinner may be said to dye before his Time, in respect of his Preparation for a dying hour. Death may come upon him, before he is prepared to encounter with that enemy. And then he dyeth indeed, in dying he shall die, if death find him unprepared; the second death taketh hold on that soul. The devils sometimes said to Jesus Christ, Art thus come to torment us before our Time. Truly such a soul goeth to the Place of Torment before his Time. There is many a sinner that death finds without an Interest in Jesus Christ, There is some sin that he hath not repented of, nay it may be he hath not truly repented of so much as one sin, and then he is not prepared to die. It had been better for him that he had never been born, than that he should dye and go out of the world in that Condition,
2. A sinner may be said to dye before his Time, in respect of his Preparation for a dying hour. Death may come upon him, before he is prepared to encounter with that enemy. And then he dyeth indeed, in dying he shall dy, if death find him unprepared; the second death taketh hold on that soul. The devills sometimes said to Jesus Christ, Art thus come to torment us before our Time. Truly such a soul goeth to the Place of Torment before his Time. There is many a sinner that death finds without an Interest in Jesus Christ, There is some sin that he hath not repented of, nay it may be he hath not truly repented of so much as one sin, and then he is not prepared to dy. It had been better for him that he had never been born, than that he should dye and go out of the world in that Condition,
3. A sinner may die before that Time be fulfilled, which according to the ordinary course of nature he might have lived.
3. A sinner may dy before that Time be fulfilled, which according to the ordinary course of nature he might have lived.