N00710:27
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.
7.22, 23. he goeth after her straightway, as the ox goeth to the slaughter, and as a fool to the correction of the Stocks, till a dart strike through his liver, as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life; they are invited and entreated to be reconciled unto God, and to put away their sins by repentance, and they mind it not, but stop their ears, and harden their hearts, & turn their backs; they have a day of visitation, in which the things of their peace are set before them, and do not know it; they see others of their fellow sinners cut off by Gods awful Judgments, and it makes no impression upon them: yea, they themselves are brought to sorrow and shame; and still they will not be reclaimed: and were not madness in their heart, could they do so?
7.22, 23. he goeth after her straitway, as the ex goeth to the slaughter, and as a fool to the correction of the Stocks, till a dart strike through his liver, as a bird hacteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life; they are invited and entreated to be reconciled unto God, and to put away their sins by repentance, and they mind it not, but stop their ears, and harden their hearts, & turn their backs; they have a day of visitation, in which the things of their peace are set before them, and do not know it; they see others of their fellow sinners cut off by Gods awful Judgments, and it makes no impression upon them: yea, they themselves are brought to sorrow and shame; and still they will not be reclaimed: and were not madness in their heart, could they do so?
Prop. II. That therefore such Sinners shall not stand in the sight of God.
Could that Philistine Prince say, 1 Sam. 21.14, ⟨p. 8⟩