N00710:65
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
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.
A Citation TO Judgment after DEATH.
Hebr. IX.27. — And after this the Judgment.
THIS Verse is the protasis of a comparison which the Apostle makes use of in his Discourse; which needs not for the present be insisted on, or laid open, in as much as we have now to do but with the general Doctrine contained in the words themselves. Among all those things which men are invited to the serious contemplation of, there are none ⟨p. 30⟩that carry more of solemnity in them, than those of Death and Judgment: because the former of these puts an end to mans life and time, and opportunities; and the other disposeth them to an Everlasting and Unchangeable Estate. Death it self is styled a King of Terrors in the Holy Scriptures; and the Philosopher could call it, [TON PHOBERON PHOBERATAION] of fearful things, the most fearful; but that which adds to the tremendousness of it, is that it is a passage to the great and last Judgment, which the ignorant Gentiles had but dark notice of; but is evidently manifested in the Word of God, which we Christians are favoured withal. The verse before us, gives us an intimation of both these, and of the certainty of them, as things which are appointed. The word [appointed] signifies both a designation, & a reservation of a thing; notifying that, as there is an Eternal purpose for it in the Decree of God, so it is his sixth and unchangeable will that it shall so be; and accordingly all men are reserved for it. It is the latter of these statutes then that I am now to treat of, though with that respect as it is consequent upon the former. In the words then, there are three things to be observed: