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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.
3. They that are incorrigible in the ways of sin, are wicked overmuch. Who sin against all means that can be used to reclaim them. There are such sinners as do di•pi•e all means, they will take no warning. Though God himself speaketh to them by awful Providences, taking some and hanging them up before their eyes, yet they will go on still in their trespasses. And though they that are the Lords vicegerents on earth, do establish and execute severe and righteous Laws, and put sin and sinners to shame, yet they still continue to transgress against the Lord. This doth evidence a desperately wicked man. It is spoken concerning a man that is beyond measure wicked, that he doth run upon the thick bosses, of the Buckler of the Almighty Job. •15. 26. What is the Buckler of the Almighty? It is the Word of God, And what are the thick Bosses of that Buckler? They are the threatenings and sanctions annexed to that Word. When sinners shall transgress in a Land where there are Laws established and regulated according to the Word of God, and those Laws faithfully executed, they run themselves upon the thick Bosses of the Buckler of the Almighty, and therefore are de•pereatly wicked. And there are that sin against the light of the Gospel and reproofs administered in the Word and ⟨p. 11⟩Name of God: such are wicked overmuch, and have cause to fear that they shall dye before their Time. witness that awful scripture Prov. 29. 1. He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. And there are that despise reproofs, instructions, admonitions, exhortations, privately administered in Families, by masters, Parents, such are also wicked overmuch, and do often die before their Time. Witness the sons of Eli, of whom it is said, they •a•kned not to the voice of their Father, because the Lord would slay them 1 Sam. 2. 25. Doth thy Father give thee good counsel? but wilt thou not hearken to him? This is a sign, that the Lord will slay thee. Remember those proud and profane young men, the sons of Eli, they regarded not what their Father said to them, and therefore they dyed before their Time. This cometh of not hearkening to the voice of a Father.