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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.
And this is especially intended here in the Text. why shouldst thou dye before thy time, Hebr. [Greek or Hebrew] and not in thy Time. that is to say, before that time which according to the ordinary course of nature thou mightest have lived, be expired. Many times the Divine Providence doth so order as that they who have been wicked overmuch shall not live out that time. Thus concerning the world of the ungodly which lived before the flood, Eliphaz saith Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden, 1who were cut down out of time, Job. 22. 15, 16. According to the ordinary course of Nature, they might have lived a Long Time, but they were cut down by the stroke of Death. wicked men never by before they are ripe in sin, but they often die before they are ripe in Nature. They are carried and chased out of the world by some violent death.
And this is especially intended here in the Text. why shouldst thou dye before thy time, Hebr. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and not in thy Time. that is to say, before that time which according to the ordinary course of nature thou mighte•t have lived, be expired. Many times the Divine Providence doth so order as that they who have been wicked overmuch shall not live out that time. Thus concerning the world of the ungodly which lived before the flood, Eliphaz saith Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have troden, 1who were cut down out of time, Job. 22. 15, 16. According to the ordinary course of Nature, they might have lived a Long Time, but they were cut down by the stroke of Death. wicked men never by before they are ripe in sin, but they often dy before they are ripe in Nature. They are caried and chased out of the world by some violent death.
- 1See Mr Caryl • J•b 22. 16.