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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. When a man shall become guilty of such sins as are of a very heinous nature, then he may be said to be wicked overmuch. There are Scarlet sins, Crimson abominations, which the Heavens blush to behold. There are bloody sinners, whose souls lye bleeding under Prodigious guilt, even such as have been guilty of evils; that by the Law of God and man are Capital Crimes, these are they that have been wicked overmuch. to mention only one or two Crimes.
2. When a man shall become guilty of such sins as are of a very hainous nature, then he may be said to be wicked overmuch. There are Scarlet sins, Crimson abominations, which the Heavens blush to behold. There are bloody sinners, whose souls lye bleeding under Prodigious guilt, even such as have been guilty of evils; that by the Law of God and man are Capital Crimes, these are they that have been wicked overmuch. to mention onely one or two Crimes.
Murder is a great and horrid wickedness, and so Capital as that whoever hath been guilty of it, may in no case be pardoned by man. Numb. 35. 30, 31. Whoso Killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death, moreover they shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer which is Guilty of death, but He shall be surely put to death. And they that have been guilty of this wickedness, usually die before their Time, according to that scripture Psal. 55. 23. But thou O God shalt bring them down to destruction, […] and deceitful men should not live out half their days. It is thought by some that Cain. (who was the first murderer amongst men) dyed before his Time. The Jews have a Tradition that Lamech killed Cain and a young man that was with him hunting in the woods; To this purpose some understand that place (our version doth evidently favour that Interpretation) Gen. 4. 23.24. Lamech said, 1