N00710:88
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.
USE. I. For Information in three particulars.
1. Learn we hence the folly and madness which the generality of man kind do labour of. Are all men riding post to their dissolution, and must they thence pass unto Judgment? we must then certainly conclude, that the workers of iniquity have no understanding. If we take a due observation of the Lives and Conversations which the most of the Children of men are leading, we may plainly read thus much in them, viz. That they either believe that they shall never die, or at the least that they have no thoughts or expectations of ever being called to an after reckoning. Doth the Covetous worlding, who lays out all his thoughts and industry, in laying up his treasures on earth, and making of that his only care, that by heaping up wealth, and providing himself with abundance of the good things of this life, he may have encouragement to sing that requiem to his Soul; Luk. 12.19. Soul, thou hast goods laid up for many years, take thine ease, eat, drink and be merry. Doth he believe that he shall ever be parted from his possessions, and he made to go to the generation of his fathers, never to see light? Doth the Profligate Voluptuary, who seek no farther than to immerge himself in carnal pleasures, spending of his time among vain and lewd Companions, in drinking, and gaming, and wanton dalliances, always making provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof, ever affect his heart with the thought or belief of the days of darkness which shall be many? Doth the Profane Swearer, that is every day rending of Gods blessed name with ⟨p. 47⟩