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Speedy repentance urged. A sermon preached at Boston, Decemb. 29. 1689. In the hearing,…
Speedy repentance urged. A sermon preached at Boston, Decemb. 29. 1689. In the hearing, and at the request of one Hugh Stone, a miserable man under a just sentence of death, for a tragical and horrible murder. : Together with some account concerning the character, carriage, and execution of that unhappy malefactor. : To which are added, certain memorable providences relating to some other murders; & some great instances of repentance which have been seen among us. / By Cotton Mather Pastor of the Gospel in Boston.
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1690
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Conclusion 2.
[My Iniquity] The Hebrew Word for it imports Iniquity with Crookedness and Perverseness. And hence I form this Conclusion.
The Sins of Men have a World of unrighteous Crookedness & Perverseness in them.
The Sins of Men have a World of unrighteous Crookedness & Perversness in them.
Our Sins are not Right Things, but there is a most uncomely Obliquity in all of our Iniquity. Every Sinner may say, as in Job. 33.27. I have perverted that which is right. The Path which God in his Word has directed us unto, is a right path, or as 'tis called A path of Righteousness; but sin is a wandering from it; the Sinne• goes astray in the greatness of his folly. Sin is a Deviation ⟨p. 13⟩from a strait Rule The Psalmist could say in Psal: 119: 128. I esteem thy precepts concerning all things to be right. But now every false way has a figure not conformed unto the precepts of God. The Sinner walks in crooked paths, when God has required, make strait paths for your selves. And he has no constant course. One while 'tis one Lust, and tha another, which he is madly slaving unto; Sin is that Harlot, whereof tis said, her ways are moveable! And the Sinner is herein a most unrighteous man: He defrauds both God and man of their dues, with an injustice too black to be described. But if ever there were a perverse and an unjust man in the World, I am sure YOU that are in Irons here ought to account your self such an one. Your Frowardness has pushed you on to the most unreasonable thing that was ever done in the Land, in which you have not now long to live.