N00710:48
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
THE FOLLY and MISERY OF Impenitent Sinners. › Application 2: USE II.
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USE II.
Let it then be a word of warning and terror to Impenitent Sinners under the Gospel, & I know none that carries more of dread in it, if well understood and believed, let all such then consider,
Let it then be a word of warning and terrour to Impenitent Sinners under the Gospel, & I know none that carries more of dread in it, if well understood and believed, let all such then consider,
1. You are all foolish in your natural estate. Whatever vain opinion you have of your own ⟨p. 16⟩wisdom, which is indeed but an indication of your folly, according to, Prov. 26.16. the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason; yet this is a great truth of all men as they come into the world in their natural estate, Job 11.12. vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild asses colt. The wise man gives in the true character of every Child of Adam, as he is in himself, from the beginning to the end, Eccles 9.3 the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the Dead.