N00341:82
The greatest sinners exhorted and encouraged to come to Christ, and that now without…
The greatest sinners exhorted and encouraged to come to Christ, and that now without delaying. Also, the exceeding danger of men's deferring their repentance. : Together with a discourse about the day of judgement. And on several other subjects. / By Increase Mather teacher of a church at Boston in N. England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
printed by R.P. for Joseph Brunning i.e, 1686
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2. In that it is a way which if continued in, will bring to misery at last. All men look upon Punishment as evil: Now Sin if it be not turned from will certainly be punished at last. Jer. 2.18. Know therefore and see, that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. Bitter Punishments are sometimes inflicted on sinners in this world. Temporal Judgments on the Bodies, Estates, Names, Families; and spiritual Judgements on the Souls of sinners use to follow upon the going on in sin. To be sure if sin be not turned from, it will end in death. Rom. 6.22. The end of these things is death. Hence sin is ⟨p. 41⟩compared to a way, because it leads men to destruction. Prov. 7.27, Her house is the way to Hell, going down to the chambers of death. Hell is an undesirable place; therefore Sin which is the way thither, must needs be an evil way.
2. In that it is a way which if continued in, will bring to misery at last. All men look upon Punishment as evil: Now Sin if it be not turned from will certainly be punished at last. Ier. 2.18. Know therefore and see, that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. Bitter Punishments are sometimes inflicted on sinners in this world. Temporal Judgments on the Bodies, Estates, Names, Families; and spiritual Judgements on the Souls of sinners use to follow upon the going on in sin. To be sure if sin be not turned from, it will end in death. Rom. 6.22. The end of these things is death. Hence sin is ⟨p. 41⟩compared to a way, because it leads men to destruction. Prov. 7.27, Her house is the way to Hell, going down to the chambers of death. Hell is an undesi•able place; therefore Sin which is the way thither, must needs be an evil way.