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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. Be convinced of the amazing danger which you have exposed your self to, by your fearful hardness of heart; and tremble to think, that this hardness that you are under the power of, may be Judicial. I am sure it is so sometimes, in Gods righteous judgment, with such as God hath spoken to, used many endeavours with, but they would not receive his advice: affected hardness is very often punished in this life, with inflicted hardness; as Psal. 81.11, 12. my people would not hearken to my voice, and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up to their own hearts lusts, and they walked in their own counsels; and what more fearful plague can befall any soul on this side of Hell? Had not your heart been dreadful hardened, would you not have taken warning by the first fall which God left you to, to have avoided evermore exposing of your self to such another; nay, would it not have driven you to have sought unto God for grace to prevent you, and for forgiveness and peace through the blood of Christ? Had not your heart been desperately obdurate, would ⟨p. 25⟩you, when by your most egregious wickedness, you had again fallen into your former sin, have run your self over such a precipice as this, to expose your self, by adding of Murder to Whoredoms, to have your life taken away from you by the Hand of Justice; but rather have sought your peace with God? Had not your heart been harder than an Adamant, would not the horridness of that Sin of Murder, which without all reason, and by an unaccountable desperateness you precipitated your self into, have made you to relent? whereas instead of discovering a broken heart, and a contrite spirit, upon a reflection on it, your whole carriage both before and at your Trial, and at the very pronouncing of a Sentence of Death upon you, hath been such, and so stupendous, as hath put a grief of heart, into all that fear God, who have either seen it, or heard of it; & what do you think this Impenitency will lead to at length, if God do not graciously heal you of it?
2. Be convinced of the amazing danger which you have exposed your self to, by your fearful hardness of heart; and tremble to think, that this hardness that you are under the power of, may be Judicial. I am sure it is so sometimes, in Gods righteous judgment, with such as God hath spoken to, used many endeavours with, but they would not receive his advice: affected hardness is very often punished in this life, with inflicted hardness; as