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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.
TO THE READER.
The ensuing Sermon was, (as is in the Title Page expressed) Preached upon a very sad & solemn occasion. I did not know that it would fall to my Lot to attend that service, a whole week before, and much other business was upon my hands at the same Time, necessary to be done; in which respect nothing but what is Plain and Common is to be expected in this Discourse. Yea and if I had had never so much time for Preparation, it is my Principle, (and those few in the world that know any thing of me, will testify that my continued Practice is according to that Principle) that Flaines•s in delivering the Truths of God, is always to be endeavoured after; but more especially when such awful occasions are presented, as caused the Preaching of this Sermon. 1Plain food is best in a Spiritual as well as in a Natural sense.
THe ensuing Sermon was, (as is in the Title Page expressed) Preached upon a very sad & solemn occasion. I did not know that it would fall to my Lot to attend that service, a whole week before, and much other business was upon my hands at the same Time, necessary to be done; in which respect nothing but what is Plain and Common is to be expected in this Discourse. Yea and if I had had never so much time for Preparation, it is my Principle, (and those few in the world that know any thing of me, will testify that my continued Practice is according to that Principle) that Flaines•s in delivering the Truths of God, is alwayes to be endeavoured after; but more especially when such awfull occasions are presented, as caused the Preaching of this Sermon.