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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.
2. Consider that now you must dye before your Time, especially one of you, a poor young creature that hath hardly lived twenty years in this world, and must this day be turned out of it. Yea both of you die before your Time. you might according to the ordinary course of nature have lived many a year. You must be cut off by a violent and dreadful death. For indeed the anger of the Lord would fall upon this whole Country where your sin hath been committed, if you should be suffered to live.
2. Consider that now you must dye before your Time, especially one of you, a poor young creature that hath hardly lived twenty years in this world, and must this day be turned out of it. Yea both of you dy before your Time. you might according to the ordinary course of nature have lived many a year. You must be cut off by a violent and dreadfull death. For indeed the anger of the Lord would fall upon this whole Country where your sin hath been committed, if you should be suffered to live.
3. Consider, That there is yet a possibility for you to escape the second death. Though your sin be very great, yet God can pardon it. I remember a passage concerning a poor creature that was condemned to dye for wickedness he had been guilty of (I the rather mention it because he was Country man to one of you) but when he was in Person gave good Hopes of his unfeigned Repentance, 1and when he came to the place of execution, He had this expression, O! God is a great forgiver, God is a great forgiver, so I say to you in his Name, the Lord is a great Forgiver, It is his Name to forgive iniquity Transgression and sin. Yea and He hath, (upon deep and unfeigned Repentance) for given those that have committed this sin which you are now to suffer for. Mana•••h shed much innocent blood yet when he humbled himself greatly, the Lord was entreated for him. There are some in Heaven that were once Bloody sinners. David was delivered from Blood guiltiness. Upon his Repentance it was said to him, The Lord hath ⟨p. 23⟩