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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
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III. That there is a particular Judgment to which every man shall be called immediately after Death. It is true, the general Judgment is reserved for the great and last day, when, after the whole affair of time is wound up, God will call all reasonable Creatures to an account; and, having raised up their dead bodies to life, and re-united them to their Souls, of which Resurrection also the word of God gives us the assurance; he will cite them before his Tribunal, ⟨p. 37⟩and dispose of them in their whole persons eternally, which day is peculiarly Celebrated in the Book of God; which, though it also follows after mans death, yet it will not be till a long time after a great many have dyed, and seen Corruption; and that because there were other Generations to be born, and live, and die, until the whole Series of them, according to the Divine appointment, be consummated. But there is, besides this, another more particular one, which passeth upon the Soul, on its departure from the body, which, though it be not so frequently, or expressly spoken of in the Holy Scriptures, yet there are also sufficient intimations of it there to be found, enough to confirm our faith in the belief of it. This is an indubitable truth, that the Soul of man doth not die a proper natural Death; nor is it capable of it. The man indeed is said to die, by reason of the dissolution of the bond of Union, and the separation which is thereupon made between the Soul and Body, whereupon the body remains a Carcass, and must suffer Corruption, after which there must be a powerful Resurrection bestowed on it, in order to its being made capable of standing forth in Judgment. But it is otherwise with the Soul; that, in its separate state, still retains its Spiritual and Immortal nature, which it is in no other way able to lose but by an Annihilation; and it is accordingly disposed of presently to its unchangeable state, whether it be of weal or woe. When ⟨p. 38⟩Lazarus dyeth, his Soul is forth with carried by a Convoy of Angels, into Abraham's bosom, and that is no other but a place and state of actual Felicity. When the Wicked Rich man dyes, the next news that we hear of his Soul is in Hell, whether it is carried, and where it is disposed of; and that not only as in a Prison, but as a place of Execution, where it suffers the penalty which its sin had procured for it: