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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.
5. They that mind nothing but this world and the vanities and lasts thereof are wicked overmuch. Even they that live like Ath•••s without God in the world. And this last Particular suits with the scope of this Context. For as they are righteous overmuch who under pretence of Religion neglect their particular Callings, 1so they are wicked overmuch who neglect duties of Religion, out of respect to the world. There are that live in a continual neglect of God & of their own souls and Salvation. Hence no prayer it may be not so much as in the Family, no reading of the Scriptures, no Meditation, no self-examination. How do men live as if there were no world but this, as if there were no God to serve, and they had no souls to save? Certainly, all such are wicked overmuch.
5. They that mind nothing but this world and the vani•yes and lasts thereof are wicked overmuch. Even they that live like Ath•••s without God in the world. And this last Particular suits with the scope of this Context. For as they are righteous overmuch who under pretence of Religion neglect their particular Callings, 1so they are wicked overmuch who neglect duties of Religion, out of respect to the world. There are that live in a continual neglect of God & of their own souls and Salvation. Hence no prayer it may be not so much as in the Family, no reading of the Scriptures, no Meditation, no self-examination. How do men live as if there were no world but this, as if there were no God to serve, and they had no souls to save? Certainly, all such are wicked overmuch.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] signi••icat, ne •imium comm•ve•e nego•••is ••culi, ne nimis & im• óicus eo in illis perpeuó […] & ni allied unquam anmo requicto gitans, […] conta abillis plane tee avrtere est imis tum e. Mercer in Locum.