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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.
Drunkenness also, is a sin, that often brings those that are guilty of it to a miserable end at last. A vile creature, it may be when he is drunk, He will go and drown himself, and his soul go down into eternal darkness in that condition, or he will commit some horrid sin, for which the sword of Justice will Cut him off. When he is drunk He will commit Adul•ety, or a Rape it may be. Alas we hear that such a villainy hath been Committed of late, in a Plantation not far off; Or in his drink He'll Kill a man, and so dye before his Time. Therefore beware of that sin.
Drunkenness also, is a sin, that often brings those that are guilty of it to a miserable end at last. A vile creature, it may be when he is drunk, He will goe and drown himself, and his soul goe down into eternall darkness in that condition, or he will commit some horrid sin, for which the sword of Justice will Cut him off. When he is drunk He will commit Adul•ety, or a Rape it may be. Alass we hear that such a villany hath been Committed of late, in a Plantation not far off; Or in his drink Hee'le Kill a man, and so dye before his Time. Therefore beware of that sin.
And Covetousness is a sin, which many Times brings untimely death, It did so upon A•han. The Love of money is is the root of all evil. This hath occasioned many a bloody ⟨p. 20⟩unnatural Murder. 1the story is famously known of a man in Cornwall, that his son having been many years absent from him and coming home with a Portmant•e full of silver and Gold, and his Parents not knowing who he was, for the sake of his money conspire together, and in the night time cut his throat, and in the next morning when they knew it was their own son whom they had Murdered, they did in anguish and horror, both of them destroy themselves.