N00710:37
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 yet there are a great many of these that shall stand in Gods sight. God hath not left this foolish and sinful race without all hope. The Doctrine before us, is not to drive the wretched children of men to despair. There have been such as have added to their natural folly, prodigious wickednesses, whereby they have expressed the height of their madness, who yet notwithstanding have been made partakers in this grace, to be heavens favourites, and taken near unto God, and entitled to all the Glories of his Kingdom, what saith the Apostle? 1 Cor. 6.9, 10, 11. Neither Fornicators, &c shall inherit the Kingdom of God, and such were some of you, but ye are washed, &c. and he puts himself in the number, in that declaration of his, Tit. 3.3. for we our selves also ⟨p. 11⟩were sometime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving of divers lusts and pleasures, &c.
2. That yet there are a great many of these that shall stand in Gods sight. God hath not left this foolish and sinful race without all hope. The Doctrine before us, is not to drive the wretched children of men to despair. There have been such as have added to their natural folly, prodigious wickednesses, whereby they have expressed the height of their madness, who yet notwithstanding have been made partakers in this grace, to be heavens favourites, and taken near unto God, and entituled to all the Glories of his Kingdom, what saith the Apostle? 1 Cor. 6.9, 10, 11. Neither Fornicators, &c shall inherit the Kingdom of God, and such were some of you, but ye are washed, &c. and he puts himself in the number, in that declaration of his, Tit. 3.3. for we our selves also ⟨p. 11⟩were sometime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving of divers lusts and pleasures, &c.