N00710:55
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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6. Hence think what a doom is hastening upon you, and what an execution will follow that. You must very shortly appear before God; your day of Grace will soon be at an end; the time is drawing near when God will say that his Spirit shall strive no more with you; the axe which lieth at the root all this while, will cut you down, you must hear your terrible Judge say, depart from me, I know thee not, thou worker of iniquity: and when that word is once past, the sentence will take place. And whither must you go, when you depart from him, but to everlasting burnings? to ⟨p. 19⟩the worm that dyes not, to the fire that is not quenched, to eternal torments, to dwell with the Devils and damned, and feel the endless impressions of the fury of a provoked God? and can your hearts endure? let these terrors of the Lord work on your hearts and persuade them.
6. Hence think what a doom is hastning upon you, and what an execution will follow that. You must very shortly appear before God; your day of Grace will soon be at an end; the time is drawing near when God will say that his Spirit shall strive no more with you; the ax which lyeth at the root all this while, will cut you down, you must hear your terrible Judge say, depart from me, I know thee not, thou worker of iniquity: and when that word is once past, the sentence will take place. And whither must you go, when you depart from him, but to everlasting burnings? to ⟨p. 19⟩the worm that dyes not, to the fire that is not quenched, to eternal torments, to dwell with the Devils and damned, and feel the endles impressions of the fury of a provoked God? and can your hearts endure? let these terrours of the Lord work on your hearts and perswade them.
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