IF ever there was a time when God solemnly calls his Servants to Cry aloud and not to spare, but show his People their transgressions, it is now, when Iniquity so abounds and love waxeth so cold. And as the Philosopher once said, that Evil manners occasion the making of good Laws; So the horrid wickedness of some notorious sinners, gives occasion for the Preaching of Sermons more peculiarly serviceable for the rousing and awakening of secure ones, and loudly calling them to Repentance; when God toucheth the hearts of his Ministers, with a feeling sense of the danger of, and tender compassion towards ⟨image ?⟩those that are going without regard in the path of destruction. That which gave birth to the ensuing SERMONS, was the prodigious example of a forlorn young Creature, that had defiled her self with Whoredoms, and been the unhappy mother of two illegitimate children successively, and became the barbarous Murderer of the latter of them; for which Crime, she there stood under a sentence of Death, upon due Conviction, and that before she had seen full Nineteen years in the World: and for the which she hath been since righteously executed. My Soul was the more deeply affected with her condition, partly, because she belonged to my Flock, and had received the Seal of the Covenant from my hands, and was under my Charge; in which I could not but feel an heart thrilling rebuke in the Holy Providence of God: Partly because of the most amazing, and scarce paralleled induration of heart, and tremendous Wickedness which she discovered in and under her Imprisonment, to the deep consternation of all serious ones that were acquainted therewithal. Which will, I hope, plead sufficiently for the suitableness of the Subjects treated of, and the severity of the Words used in the prosecution of them. But she is now gone, and hath given up her account to the Judge of all. Yet her example remains, and stands for the ⟨image ?⟩Warning of others. And doubtless God expects that the living should lay it to heart, and learn lessons of Caution thereby. I have therefore endeavoured, according to the Grace given me, to Level these Discourses for the Admonition of others, least they also provoke a Sin hating God, to give them up to be more astonishing Monuments of his righteous severity. And there are, I fear, more abominations as great as these, which have not yet seen the light;
IF ever there was a time when God solemnly calls his Servants to Cry aloud and not to spare, but shew his People their transgressions, it is now, when Iniquity so abounds and love waxeth so cold. And as the Philosopher once said, that Evil manners occasion the making of good Laws; So the horrid wickedness of some notorious sinners, gives occasion for the Preaching of Sermons more peculiarly serviceable for the rowsing and awakning of secure ones, and loudly calling them to Repentance; when God toucheth the hearts of his Ministers, with a feeling sense of the danger of, and tender compassion towards ⟨image ?⟩those that are going without regard in the path of destruction. That which gave birth to the ensuing SERMONS, was the prodigious example of a forlorn young Creature, that had defiled her self with Whoredoms, and been the unhappy mother of two illegitimate children successively, and became the barbarous Murderer of the latter of them; for which Crime, she there stood under a sentence of Death, upon due Conviction, and that before she had seen full Nineteen years in the World: and for the which she hath been since righteously executed. My Soul was the more deeply affected with her condition, partly, because she belonged to my Flock, and had received the Seal of the Covenant from my hands, and was under my Charge; in which I could not but feel an heart thrilling rebuke in the Holy Providence of God: Partly because of the most amazing, and scarce paralel'd induration of heart, and tremendous Wickedness which she discovered in and under her Imprisonment, to the deep consternation of all serious ones that were acquainted therewithall. Which will, I hope, plead sufficiently for the suitableness of the Subjects treated of, and the severity of the Words used in the prosecution of them. But she is now gone, and hath given up her account to the Judge of all. Yet her example remains, and stands for the ⟨image ?⟩Warning of others. And doubtless God expects that the living should lay it to heart, and learn lessons of Caution thereby. I have therefore endeavoured, according to the Grace given me, to Level these Discourses for the Admonition of others, least they also provoke a Sin hating God, to give them up to be more astonishing Monuments of his righteous severity. And there are, I fear, more abominations as great as these, which have not yet seen the light;
