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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.
Infor. 3. Hence it likewise followeth that Righteousness is the way to obtain long life. If wickedness bring untimely death, then Righteousness will deliver from death. There is no righteous man, but shall live in this world so long as life shall be good for him to enjoy.
But some one will say, do we not see that good men dye when they are young as well as others?
Answ. Very true. As there are some that are too wicked to live long, So there are others that are too Good to live long; in such an evil wretched world as this. Jeroboam's godly son, dyed in his youth. Josiah a most eminent servant of the Lord, dyed in the middest of his days. Enoch though the best man, and the best minister of God, in all the world in his time, was taken out of the world before he had lived half so long as men in those days were wont to live, but then it would not be good for them to live any longer. God is only wise and faithful, and therefore he taketh his servants to himself, when he seeth that life will not be best for them.
Answ. Very true. As there are some that are too wicked to live long, So there are others that are too Good to live long; in such an evill wretched world as this. Jeroboams godly son, dyed in his youth. Josiah a most eminent servant of the Lord, dyed in the midde•t of his dayes. Enoch though the best man, and the best minister of God, in all the world in his time, was taken out of the world before he had lived half so long as men in those dayes were wont to live, but then it would not be good for them to live any longer. God is onely wise and faithfull, and therefore he taketh his servants to himself, when he seeth that life will not be best for them.