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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
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That when our Lord Jesus was Incarnate among the moving Dust-heaps and Potsherds of the earth here below, once on the eight day of the Feast of Tabernacles, when there was a vast Confluence of People going to draw water from he Pool of Siloam, singing the words of the Prophet, […] joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of Salvation […], then He took occasion to stand, that He might be seen, to cry that he might be heard, & to say, If any man thirst, let him come to me & drink. […] then all the needy dying souls of men are still one thus offered; the only Appointed & Anointed Redeemer of men does thus counsel them, Let me be it from you whensoever & whereinsoever you want Salvation. But how many other such amazing lines has He also sent down from the Excellent▪ Glory into a desolate world! It is the Lord Jesus Christ who has compared the Gospel of Salvation unto a well-fraught Vessel […] up a River, whereabout He makes that •oud & loving Out cry—O Never, never was there an O yet's vouchsafed unto the world like ⟨p. 53⟩[…] This […] in Isai. 55. 1. Ho, every one […] steth let him come and partake hereof. It is the Lord Jesus Christ too, who concludes this miraculous Book with that remarkable Period—when He would put a full Stop to inspired infallible Writings, He does it by exposing His Salvation unto general Acceptation, in Rev. 22. 17. Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. In a word: For the fuller Inculcation of such a marvellous Thing, we have this immortal King, laying upon us in the name of Him that is Higher than the highest, in […] Joh. 3. 23. A Commandment to believe. We have Him hence also annexing the Sanctions of a Commandment hereunto, laying Bonds & Grapplings of Iron upon the Consciences of men: We have Him both upon Mount Ebal & upon Mount God rizzin giving accents to His Look unto Me. He discharges the dreadful rumbling Thunderclaps of such denunciations as that in Joh 3. 36. He that believeth not shall not see life. And many more such Threats and Menaces does He roar out of Zion with, wherein the smoke of the Fire and Brimstone reserved in a hot Hell for the Portion of Unbelievers is blown under the Nostrs of men. Yea, and He presents no less charming Encouragements to Believing than those in the Preface to the Proverbs of Solomon: