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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.
Consider. 1. That you have been wicked overmuch. The sin which you are now to dye for is exceeding great, even Murder. The Scripture faith that no Murderer hath eternal life. And there is another Scripture that saith, that Murderers shall have their Part in that Lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second Death. And no doubt you have been guilty of many other Grievous sins, which have provoked the Lord to leave you unto the Commission of this horrid Murder. This Murder also is exceedingly aggravated in respect of the person whom you have slain, even your Master. O, how have you risen up in ⟨p. 22⟩Rebellion against the glorious Image of God, not only in that you have shed the blood of a man, who was made after the Image of God, but such a man as had peculiar Dominion over you, in that respect you have offered fearful violence to the sacred Image of the blessed God. So that you have transgressed the fifth and sixth Commandments at once in the highest degree that you could do. And since your Apprehension, yea Conviction and Condemnation you have told many lies (at least one of you, it is to be feared both of you) against your Conscience.
Consider. 1. That you have been wicked overmuch. The sin which you are now to dye for is exceeding great, even Murder. The Scripture faith that no Murderer hath eternal life. And there is another Scripture that saith, that Murderers shall have their Part in that Lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second Death. And no doubt you have been guilty of many other Greivous sins, which have provoked the Lord to leave you unto the Commission of this horrid Murther. This Murther also is exceedingly aggravated in respect of the person whom you have slain, even your Master. O, how have you risen up in ⟨p. 22⟩Rebellion against the glorious Image of God, not onely in that you have shed the blood of a man, who was made after the Image of God, but such a man as had peculiar Dominion over you, in that respect you have offered fearfull violence to the sacred Image of the blessed God. So that you have tran•grest the fifth and sixth Commandments at once in the highest degree that you could doe. And since your Apprehension, yea Conviction and Condemnation you have told many lies (at least one of you, it is to be feared both of you) against your Conscience.