N00710:78
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.
I. That there is a future Judgment to which all reasonable Creatures shall be called. How far the Doctrine of a future Judgment hath been entertained by the light of nature, in the Consciences of men acted by humane reason, without the help of Scripture revelation, I shall not now enquire. But that it is an Article of faith, commended to us by the infallible Oracles of that God who cannot lie, or be mistaken, is written with Sun beams in his word. Read for this, Eccles. 12.14. God will bring every work into Judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or evil. Acts 17.31. he hath appointed a day in which he will Judge the World in righteousness, by the man whom he hath appointed. 2 Cor. 5 10. we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in the body; and we have a description of it ⟨p. 33⟩given to us by Christ himself, in Math. 25.33, to end. And it must need be so for, there is a special Government of God, to be acknowledged, in the management whereof he will bring all reasonable Creatures to an everlasting state of happiness or misery, according to their Obedience or Disobedience to the Law of that Government, in prosecution whereof he will display the Glory of his Justice and Grace. God deals with his Creatures in his Government, according to the nature which he saw meet to bestow on them in their Creation. Now when God Created man, he made him a reasonable Creature, and thereby capable of being treated in the way of a Covenant, by precepts and promises, and threatenings; according unto which capacity, he gave him a Command, and required his obedience to it; promised him a reward of life, in case of his performing of perfect Obedience thereunto; denouncing Death against him in case he should disobey. He hath also, upon mans Apostasy by which he fell under a Curse of Death, revealed to him a new and a living way for his recovery out of that misery into which he was plunged; and hath treated some of that race with a Covenant of Grace, in which he hath promised them life upon their compliance with it, and menaced them with damnation, yea double damnation, on their neglect of it. All these things are abundantly testified to in the Word of God: