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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.
Pride is one of those sins. Corah was a Proud man, He could not bear to be subject to that order neither in Church nor Commonwealth, which God had appointed, and He dyed not the common death of all men. Haman was exceeding proud and highminded, and his pride brought him to the Gallows at last. But what need we go far for examples? One of these poor condemned Creatures that is here standing before the Lord this day, saith that he thinks his pride hath been his ruin. I asked him the other day in the prison, what sin it was that he thought in his Conscience God was provoked with him for, so as to leave him to that which hath brought him under this condemnation? He told me, he thought i• was for his Pride. For he thought much of it that such an one as He should be a servant, and he sometimes used such words as these, I am flesh and blood as well as my Master and therefore I know no reason why my Master should not obey me as well as I obey him. Thus did he say, and now we see what his Pride ⟨p. 18⟩brought him unto, therefore beware of that sin.
Pride is one of those sins. Corah was a Proud man, He could not bear to be subject to that order neither in Church nor Commonwealth, which God had appointed, and Hee dyed not the common death of all men. Haman was exceeding proud and highminded, and his pride brought him to the Gallows at last. But what need wee goe far for examples? One of these poor condemned Creatures that is here standing before the Lord this day, saith that he thinks his pride hath been his ruine. I asked him the other day in the prison, what sin it was that he thought in his Conscience God was provoked with him for, so as to leave him to that which hath brought him under this condemnation? He told me, he thought i• was for his Pride. For he thought much of it that such an one as He should be a servant, and he sometimes used such words as these, I am flesh and blood as well as my Master and therefore I know no reason why my Master should not obey me as well as I obey him. Thus did he say, and now we see what his Pride ⟨p. 18⟩brought him unto, therefore beware of that sin.