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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
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.
II. That this Judgment is after Death; this is the order that it is manifestly put in, Text. That there are many awful and stupendous Judgments that God brings upon men in this world, is not to be denied; in which he declares his Holiness and just Indignation at sin; and hence we are told, Psal. 9.14. The Lord is known by the Judgment that he executeth. There is also a Court which God hath set up in mens Consciences, at which Bar they are sometimes solemnly tried, and being there convicted of breaking the Holy Law of God, & ⟨p. 35⟩laying themselves open to the vengeance therein threatened, they are filled with horrors. But it is another Judgment whereof we are now considering, in which men are to appear before God, and receive from him their final doom, which, when it is once past, shall be immediately put in Execution. Now this men come not to in this life, but after they are dead; so that death is not, as too many vainly dream, the last news that shall be heard of men, but there is something more fearful and amazing that comes after it, and that is the Judgment. There is a Judgment to come; so Paul Preached to Faelix, at the report whereof he trembled, Acts 24.25. and when is that, but when men are past from time, and have done the work which they were engaged in in this life? while men are in this world, conversant in the body, they are upon probation for Eternity, they are laying in, and making way for their account, and all that they do here bears a proper respect thereunto; for they are the works which are done in the body, which must be called to an after reckoning, 2 Cor. • 10. hence sinners are said in this time to be […] up unto themselves wrath against the day of wrath, Rom. 2 5. It is evident, that neither good men nor evil men are in this life, openly distinguished in the observable Providences of God, except in some special instances; love and hatred cannot be known by all that is before them, Eccles. 9.1. yea, the wise man hath an observation, as if often times, the outward face of things look with a ⟨p. 36⟩