N00710:24
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.
1. All sin is folly. And hence so much sin […] remains in the Godly, so much foolishness there abides with them. This the Psalmist confesseth of himself, Psal. 69 5. O God, thou knowest my foolishness. Every time a person commits any sin, he hath just reason to say of himself, as he, 1 Sam. 26.21. I have sinned, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly. And it must needs be so, for every sin is an act of disobedience to that God, on whom we have our entire dependence, and to whom we owe our selves and our whole lives: it is an act of rebellion against that God whom we are bound to subject our selves unto, and is able to destroy us for that rebellion. It is a forsaking the fountain of living waters, and digging of broken Cisterns that can hold no water. Jer. 2.12. It is a preferring of lying vanities before everlasting Mercies. Jer. 2.8. It is a provoking of God to jealousy. 1 Cor. 10.22. And we are not stronger than he. It is an entering of the lists of contention with him, a running upon him, even his neck, on the thick bosses of his buckler, Job. 15.26. It is for a worm to bid a challenge to Omnipotency it self: yea, what shall I say? there are uncountable follies attend the commission of every sin; and no wisdom at all.
1. All sin is folly. And hence so much sin 〈…〉 remains in the Godly, so much foolishness there abides with them. This the Psalmist confesseth of himself, Psal. 69 5. O God, thou knowest my foolishness. Every time a person commits any sin, he hath just reason to say of himself, as he, 1 Sam. 26.21. I have sinned, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly. And it must needs be so, for every sin is an act of disobedience to that God, on whom we have our entire dependence, and to whom we owe our selves and our whole lives: it is an act of rebellion against that God whom we are bound to subject our selves unto, and is able to destroy us for that rebellion. It is a forsaking the fountain of living waters, and digging of broken Cisterns that can hold no water.