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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. Look up to God in Jesus Christ, that he would give you Repentance and Faith unfeigned. You cannot convert your s•lves, but God can do it, therefore look up to him for that end, and cry mightily to him, as for your lives. If the Magistrate should say to you (they may not, they dare not say so, because then the displeasure of God would come upon them & upon this People) that if you would cry earnestly for your lives, you should have them, O how earnest would you be? Behold, the God of Gods saith to you this day, (and in his name I p•oc•a•m it) that if you seek unto him with all your Hearts, it is possible that the sentence of eternal death which is upon your souls may be revoked O then pray for the lives of your ⟨p. 25⟩souls. I Remember it is storied of a poor woman that being Condemned to dye, as soon as the sentence was past, she fell a crying and shrieking in a lamentable manner, the Judge rebuked her, and bad her hold her peace, but she replied O my lord it is for my life, it is for my life. So I say to you, O cry to the Lord for Grace and for pardoning mercy, It is for the lives of your souls. yea it is for the lives▪of your Souls.
2. Look up to God in Jesus Christ, that he would give you Rep•ntance and Faith unfaigned. You cannot convert your s•lves, but God can doe it, therefore look up to him for that end, and cry mightily to him, as for your lives. If the Magistrate should say to you (they may not, they dare not say so, because then the displeasure of God would come upon them & upon this People) that if you would cry earne••ly for your lives, you should have them, O how earnest would you be? Be•old, the God of Gods saith to you this day, (and in his name I p•oc•a•m it) that if you seek unto him with all your Hearts, it is possible that the sentence of eternall death which is upon your souls may be revoked O then pray for the lives of your