N00710:54
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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5. However you now despise instruction, yet you will mourn for it at last. It will be a dreadful thing to lose Gods presence for ever, though now you can say unto him depart, yet when it comes to be your lot indeed to lose all your hope of his favour, this will be unconceivable bitterness: ⟨image ?⟩and nothing will make it more bitter than to think, I had a day of Grace, wisdom himself pleaded with me, stretched out his hands all the day long to me; I heard the precious truths of the Gospel, I was told of my miserable state, entreated to consider of it, offered help out of it; was waited upon with line upon line, striven with, both by Parents, and Godly friends, and faithful Ministers, and by the Spirit himself together with them: I was told what it would come to; and yet I despised, I scorned, I would have mine own ways, and grew the more resolute in them, and now I am but filled with my own devices, and made to eat of the fruit of my own ways: and how dreadful an echo of Conscience will this be? and yet we are told that thus it will be in the end, Prov. 5.11. &c. and thou mourn at last, &c. and say, how have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof? &c.
5. However you now despise instruction, yet you will mourn for it at last. It will be a dreadful thing to lose Gods presence for ever, though now you can say unto him depart, yet when it comes to be your lot indeed to lose all your hope of his favour, this will be unconceivable bit•erness: ⟨image ?⟩and nothing will make it more bitter than to think, I had a day of Grace, wisdom himself pleaded with me, stretched out his hands all the day long to me; I heard the precious truths of the Gospel, I was told of my miserable state, entreated to consider of it, offered help out of it; was waited upon with line upon line, striven with, both by Parents, and Godly friends, and faithful Ministers, and by the Spirit himself together with them: I was told what it would come to; and yet I despised, I scorned, I would have mine own ways, and grew the more resolute in them, and now I am but filled with my own devices, and made to eat of the fruit of my own ways: and how dreadful an eccho of Conscience will this be? and yet we are told that thus it will be in the end,