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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
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.
1. Do what you can that God may have glory by you, that little time that you have to live. Therefore see that you solemnly warn others, (especially young ones) to take heed of those evils which your consciences tell you have made way, for your destruction. And see that you be sincere & ingenuous in making Confession of your sin. The Scripture saith If we confess our sins, i. e. with a penitent broken heart, desirous never more to Commit them, God is faithful to forgive them ▪ And again, He that confesseth & forsaketh shall find mercy, but he that hideth his sin shall not prosper. I charge you in the Name of God, as you will answer it by and by before his Judgement seat, that you do not deny or disown what you know is truth: & I urge this the rather, because you have not been so ingenuous in confessing your evil as God and men have expected from you. You accuse and impeach one another. The one of you says, that the other killed his Master, and you only stood by and did not strike one blow, and ⟨p. 37⟩so doth the other say; you accuse him and he accuses you. But deceive not your selves, if you deny what you know is truth, tho' God be most merciful, yet God that made you will not have mercy on you, and tho' Christ be a Saviour for great sinners, He then will not save you. The devil has brought your bodies to ruin, and now his great design is to destroy your souls; He knoweth if he can persuade you not to give glory to God by confessing, he shall have your souls for ever. I tell you truly if you now disown the truth, when once your souls are out of your bodies, they shall suffer the Vengeance of Eternal fire.
1. Do what you can that God may have glory by you, that little time that you have to live. Therefore see that you solemnly warn others, (especially young ones) to take heed of those evils which your consciences tell you have made way, for your destruction. And see that you be sincere & ingenuous in making Confession of your sin. The Scripture saith If we confess our sins, i. e. with a penitent broken heart, desirous never more to Commit them, God is faithful to forgive them ▪ And again, He that confesseth & forsaketh shall find mercy, but he that hideth his sin shall not prosper. I charge you in the Name of God, as you will answer it by and by before his Judgement seat, that you do not deny or disown what you know is truth: & I urge this the rather, because you have not been so ingenuous in confessing your evil as God and men have expected from you. You accuse and impeach one another. The one of you says, that the other kill'd his Master, and you only stood by and did not strike one blow, and