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A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston in New-England the 18th of the…
A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston in New-England the 18th 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. ; [Seven lines of quotations]A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston in New-England the 18th of the 1. moneth 1674. When two men were executed, who had murthered their master) Wherein is shewed that excess in wickedness doth bring untimely death. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church of Christ. ; [Seven lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by R.P. i.e for J. Brunning i.e, 1685
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Inform. 3. Hence it likewise follows, that Righteousness is the way to obtain Long Life. If Wickedness bring untimely death, then Righteousness will deliver from death. There is no righteous man but shall live in this world so long as life shall be good for him to enjoy.
Inform. 3. Hence it likewise follows, that Righteousness is the way to obtain Long Life. If Wickness bring untimely death, then Righteousness will deliver from death. There is no righteous man but shall live in this world so long as life shall be good for him to enjoy.
Object. But some one will say, do we not see that good men dye when they are young as well as others?
Answ. Very true: As there are some that are too wicked to live long; So there are others that are too good to live long, in such an evil wretched world as this. Jeroboam's godly Son dyed in his youth. Josiah a most eminent servant of the Lord, dyed in the midst of his days. Enoch, though the best man, and the best Minister of God in all the world in his time, was taken out of the world before he had lived half so long as men in those days ⟨p. 23⟩were wont to live: but then it would not be good for them to live any longer. God is only wise and faithful, and therefore He takes his servants to himself when he seeth that life will not be best for them. Besides, a man may live long in a little time: It is said the child shall dye an hundred years old Isa. 65.20. Tho' a child in respect of years, yet he shall have the grace & gravity, the wisdom and knowledge of a man that has lived an hundred years. And indeed that is most desirable. It is a great Mercy in many respects, to be freed from the prevailing Infirmities of old age, and therefore to live long in a little time is most desirable. As I remember Mr. Cotton in an Epistle which he hath prefixed to one of Mr Norton's