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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.
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.
1. Be convinced of your folly and madness. As long as you are wise in your own esteem, there is no hope that ever you should be so indeed; or so much as comply with the means that are made use of to render you so; it is the remark in, Prov. 26.12. Seest thou a man that is wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Conversion begins at Conviction; and men are led to that Conviction by Consideration, as, Ezek. 18.28. Because he considereth, and turneth away from his transgressions &c. And think how unreasonable a thing it is to choose Sin before Holiness, to prefer unprofitable vanities, before the glories of the everlasting Kingdom: to gratify your lusts, and undo your Souls; for a few moments pleasure, in the gratification of the senses, to suffer eternal separation from God, and the fearful impressions of his insupportable wrath.
1. Be convinced of your folly and madness. As long as you are wise in your own esteem, there is no hope that ever you should be so indeed; or so much as comply with the means that are made use of to render you so; it is the remark in, Prov. 26.12. Seest thou a man that is wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Conversion begins at Conviction; and men are led to that Conviction by Consideration, as, Ezek. 18.28. Because he considereth, and turneth away from his transgressions &c. And think how unreasonable a thing it is to chuse Sin before Holiness, to prefer unprofitable vanities, before the glories of the everlasting Kingdom: to gratify your lusts, and undoe your Souls; for a few moments pleasure, in the gratification of the senses, to suffer eternal separation from God, and the fearful impressions of his insupportable wrath.
2. Deeply resent your danger. Think it not a small and inconsiderable thing to lose Gods gracious presence; and take heed of counting it a light matter to be thrust out of it, after all the offers of it that have been made to you, and advantages that have been put into your hands to