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The folly of sinning, opened & applied, in two sermons, occasioned by the condemnation…The folly of sinning, opened & applyed, in two sermons, occasioned by the condemnation…
The folly of sinning, opened & applied, in two sermons, occasioned by the condemnation of one that was executed at Boston in New-England, on November 17th. 1698. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College, in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel at Boston in N.E. ; [Two lines from Romans]The folly of sinning, opened & applyed, in two sermons, occasioned by the condemnation of one that was executed at Boston in New-England, on November 17th. 1698. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge, in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel at Boston in N.E. ; [Two lines from Romans]
Boston: printed by B Green for Michael Perry over against the Town House, 1699
THE FOLLY OF Sinning. › Sermon 1 › Proposition 1: PROPOSITION I.
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PROPOSITION I.
Sin is an Evil not to be made light of. Several things may be mentioned which are sad Evidences, Convictive Demonstrations of the Truth before us.
Demon. 1. Sin is the greatest Evil. There is not, nor can there be another Evil, so evil as Sin is. The Scripture calls it by the Name of Evil. Psal. 34 13. Keep thy tongue from evil, that is from Sin. And Vers. 14. Depart from evil, and do good. The good there spoken of is moral good▪ And the Evil is moral Evil, i e. Sin, which by way of Eminency is said to be evil. Yea, it is not only an Evil, but the Evil. Joh• •• 15. I pray not that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou would it keep them from the evil: viz. from Sin, which is the evil the evils. It is Sin which has made all other things evil. It has made the best and most excellent Creatures in the world to become the worst. It has made the Fallen Angels to […] Evil Angels: Whereas in their First ⟨image ?⟩[…] ⟨image ?⟩[…] ⟨image ?⟩Estate they were Glorious Creatures Sons of God, and Morning Stars. How great must that Evil be, which can turn an Angel into a Devil? Sin has done this, and that as to millions of them. There are more Devils then there are men in in the World; since there is no man, but there are Devils to Tempt him unto sin; and we read in the Gospel of thousands of Devils possessing one miserable man. It is Sin that has made so many Devils. Man was a glorious Creature before he was a Sinner. The most glorious Creature that ever was made, next to the Angels.