N00710:22
Impenitent sinners warned of their misery and summoned to judgment. Delivered in two sermons:…
Impenitent sinners warned of their misery and summoned to judgment. Delivered in two sermons: the former on the Sabbath, Nov. 6. the other on the lecture following, Nov. 10. 1698. : Occasioned by the amazing instance of a miserable creature, who stood condemned for murdering her infant begotten in whoredom. : To which are subjoined the solemn words spoken to her, on those opportunities. : Published for the warning of others. / By Samuel Willard, Minister of the Gospel and teacher of a church in Boston, N.E. ; [Two lines from Deuteronomy]Impenitent sinners warned of their misery and summoned to judgment. Delivered in two sermons: the former on the Sabbath, Nov. 6. the other on the lecture following, Nov. 10. 1698. : Occasioned by the amazing instance of a miserable creature, who stood condemned for murdering her infant begotten in whoredom. : To which are subjoyned the solemn words spoken to her, on those opportunities. : Published for the warning of others. / By Samuel Willard, Minister of the Gospel and teacher of a church in Boston, N.E. ; [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
Boston: printed by B. Green & J. Allen. Sold by Michael Perry, 1698
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.
Prop. I. That all impenitent Sinners are foolish and mad.
There are a sort of persons in the world, whom God in his word, is pleased to put the Character of fools and mad men upon, who are neither naturals, or void of the use of reason, considered as men; nor yet bereft of their understandings, through occasional dotage or frenzy in that respect: and who are they? we have a summary account of them, Jer. 4.22. My people is foolish, they have not known me, they are sottish Children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. The sum ⟨p. 4⟩is, all sinners, remaining in their natural estate belong to this Character; and hence Sin and Folly are, in Scripture, terms equivalent. Here we may, in particular, briefly come at this in three steps.
There are a sort of persons in the world, whom God in his word, is pleased to put the Character of fools and mad men upon, who are neither naturals, or void of the use of reason, considered as men; nor yet bereft of their understandings, through occasional dotage or frenzy in that respect: and who are they? we have a summary account of them, Jer. 4.22. My people is foolish, they have not known me, they are sottish Children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. The summ ⟨p. 4⟩is, all sinners, remaining in their natural estate belong to this Character; and hence Sin and Folly are, in Scripture, terms equivalent. Here we may, in particular, briefly come at this in three steps.