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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.
Also take heed of giving way to passions, revenge, anger and the like. These two condemned creatures, their master corrected them, and as they thought dealt hardly with them, and therefore in wicked passion, wrath, and rage they would take an axe and knock him in the head, for which now they must dye.
Beware also of giving way to Discontents and sullen Melancholy, for that also causeth some to dye before their Time. There is a lamentable story lately Published, of a woman that in pangs of Melancholy discontent went to destroy her self several times, 1but was by the Providence of God prevented, but afterwards giving way to those Temptations, and not humbling her self on the account of former miscarriages, she imbrued her hands in the blood of her own Child, for the which she was afterwards executed, near to the place where she had committed that unnatural Cruelty and Murder. Therefore let us beware of giving way to the distempered workings of our own spirits.
Beware also of giving way to Discontents and sullen Melancholy, for that also causeth some to dye before their Time. There is a lamentable story lately Published, of a woman that in pangs of Melancholy discontent went to distroy her self several times, 1but was by the Providence of God prevented, but afterwards giving way to those Temptations, and not humbling her self on the account of former miscariages, she embrewed her hands in the blood of her own Child, for the which she was afterwards executed, near to the place where she had committed that unnatural Cruelty and Murther. Therefore let us beware of giving way to the distempered workings of our own spirits.
- 1viz M••y Cooke who was executed in Smith-field in London March 2. 1669