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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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4. Let the consideration of all this make you hasty, and in earnest to fly to God for his Spirit ⟨p. 21⟩and Grace to make you wise. This is the right improvement that sinners ought to make of the Terrors of the Lord: it should make them afraid of the wrath of God, and put them into trembling at the apprehension of their danger; and by this fear to be stimulated to an uneasiness and restlessness in their present condition, and cause them to cry aloud to God, for his pity and help, and by his Holy Spirit to work in them that great Change by which they may be turned from folly to wisdom, from darkness to his marvellous light, from sin to God. And let the dread of such a misery as this separation will certainly produce, be a spur to quicken you to make no more delays, lest whiles you despise the mercy offered, and trifle away a precious day of Grace which you enjoy, you pull down vengeance on your own heads, & be put beyond hope for ever.
4. Let the consideration of all this make you hasty, and in earnest to fly to God for his Spirit ⟨p. 21⟩and Grace to make you wise. This is the right improvement that sinners ought to make of the Terrours of the Lord: it should make them afraid of the wrath of God, and put them into trembling at the apprehension of their danger; and by this fear to be stimulated to an uneasiness and restlessness in their present condition, and cause them to cry aloud to God, for his pitty and help, and by his Holy Spirit to work in them that great Change by which they may be turned from folly to wisdom, from darkness to his marvailous light, from sin to God. And let the dread of such a misery as this separation will certainly produce, be a spur to quicken you to make no more delays, lest whiles you dispise the mercy offered, and trifle away a precious day of Grace which you enjoy, you pull down vengeance on your own heads, & be put beyond hope for ever.
5. And to make you the more earnest, look on, and take warning by every awful monument of Gods displeasure on this account. There are those Judgments of his in the World, which he designs to be exemplary, for the rousing up of secure sinners, and terrifying of them under the apprehension of his Holiness therein displayed. When any are left by God to themselves, and by their own naughtiness run themselves upon the sword of civil Justice, and must be cut off by it, God would have all Israel to hear, and fear, and do no more so presumptuously. Such an one we have now, in the Providence of God set before us; and the