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A sermon occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder preached…
A sermon occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder preached at Boston in N.E. March 11th 1685[/]6. : (Together with the confession, last expressions & solemn warning of that murderer to all persons; especially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end.) / By Increase Mather, teacher of church of Christ.
Boston: printed by R.P. i.e, 1687
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
This 45th Chapter of (that which we may not ineptly call, the Gospel according to) Isaiah, seem• the Close of a Sermon begun at the 40th chapter of that admirable Book, whose Gospel-strains […] so abundant, that in the New-Testament▪ some have counted perhaps about threescore Quotations from it; and good old Ambrose▪ hence advised Austin unto a peculiar frequency in the Reading of it. Isaiah signifies the Salvation of God; now that very thing, especially in the more promissory Conclusion of his Prophecy, is very much the Subject of his Ministry.
This 45th Chapter of (that which we may not ineptly call, the Gospel according to) Isaiah, seem• the Close of a Sermon begun at the 40th chapter of that admirable Book, whose Gospel-strains 〈…〉 so abundant, that in the New-Testament▪ some have counted perhaps about threescore Quotations from it; and good old Ambrose▪ hence advised Austin unto a peculiar frequency in the Reading of it. Isaiah signifies the Salvation of God; now that very thing, especially in the more promissory Conclusion of his Prophecy, is very much the Subject of his Ministry.
The Princely Prophet is predicting, perhaps about 200 years before the Accomplishment thereof, the Reduction and Redemption of the C•ptiv'd Jews from Babylon, together with the very name of the Persian Emperor Cyrus, who should be the Instrument thereof; and thereupon he assigns the several reasons of this stuperidious Dispensation. One ground thereof laid down is, that the Nations of the world, far and near, might be brought to abandon their Lying vanities, and to acknowledge the Only true GOD, with Jesus Christ whom He hath sent. At the mention of this there immediately falls in the gracious invitation to those Nations which we have now to insist upon: wherein we may observe