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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.
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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 ⟨p. 20⟩gain it, and the importunate entreaties with which it hath been urged upon you, have been neglected, and despised by you. Yea, solemnly consider, that you can in nothing more dishonour God, or provoke him to hasten your woe day, and speedily to put you out of his sight at the farthest distance, than by hardening of your hearts against all his calls and warnings.
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 ⟨p. 20⟩gain it, and the importunate entreaties with which it hath been urged upon you, have been neglected, and despised by you. Yea, solemnly consider, that you can in nothing more dishonour God, or provoke him to hasten your wo day, and speedily to put you out of his sight at the farthest distance, than by hardning of your hearts against all his calls and warnings.
3. Be often pondering what a God you have to do withal. He is a great and a terrible God; if you lose his favour, and procure his anger to burn upon you, you will certainly fall before it. What saith he? Psal. 76.7. Thou, even those art to be feared; and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? He is an holy God; he hates, and is resolved signally to testify his displeasure at sin; and woe to those that must be made the monuments of that displeasure of his, better had it been for them, if they had never been born. He is a Just God, and he will not suffer the righteousness of his Law to fail; and if bold sinners will thrust themselves upon the swords point, they shall feel the smart of it, to their confusion. He is a True God, and faithful to his threatenings as well as to his promises, and if he hath said, that the foolish shall not stand in his sight, let all impenitent sinners look to themselves, for they shall find that the Strength of Israel is not a man that he shouldly, or a son of man, that he should repent.