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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.
2. That hence all they that are under the Dominion of Sin, are egregious fools. There is folly cleaving to the best of Gods Children here, as long as they […] body of death to carry about with them; and it shows it self in every stirring of the corrupt […] but yet they have the principles of the true wisdom in them; they are such as are made wise to Salvation. But as for those in whom there are no seeds of saving Grace sown, but they yet remain in their natural estate, folly is bound up in their hearts, & they have no other principle in them As to their Understandings, they are foolish and perverse, they call evil good, and good evil. Isai. 5.20. As to their Wills and Affections, they are engaged. Eccl. 8.11. The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. They do nothing at all with a sincere aim at the glory of God, and the furtherance of their own salvation: yea, their whole life is a continual progress in the way that leads to destruction; hence we have that put into their description, Rom. 3.16, 17. Destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of Peace have they not known.
2. That hence all they that are under the Dominion of Sin, are egregious fools. There is folly cleaving to the best of Gods Children here, as long as they 〈…〉 body of death to carry about with them; and it shews it self in every stirring of the corrupt 〈…〉 but yet they have the principles of the true wisdom in them; they are such as are made wise to Salvation. But as for those in whom there are no seeds of saving Grace sown, but they yet remain in their natural estate, folly is bound up in their hearts, & they have no other principle in them As to their Understandings, they are foolish and perverse, they call evil good, and good evil. Isai. 5.20. As to their Wills and Affections, they are engaged. Eccl. 8.11. The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. They do nothing at all with a sincere aim at the glory of God, and the furtherance of their own salvation: yea, their whole life is a continual progress in the way that leads to destruction; hence we have that put into their description,