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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.
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.
2. Sin displeaseth God. Therefore it should not please men Z•ch. 1.2. The Lord has been sore displeased with your Fathers. He would never have been displeased with them at all, if it had not been for Sin. The sins of men are called their Offences. Hos 5.15. until th•y acknowledge their offence. Shall a poor creature make a light matter of offending the Almighty? Sin cannot but be displeasing to God, because it is contrary to his reveal•• ⟨p. 13⟩Will. Every Sin is a violation of that Law which is expressive of the Holy Will of God. It is indeed a despising of the Law. Lev. 26.15. If ye shall despise my Statutes. Sinners cast away the Law of the Lord of Hosts, and despise the Word of the Holy One of Israel. Isa. 5.24. A Sinner is a practical Blasphemer; he saith of the Law of God, that it is no good Law; that it is a Law not worth the regarding. Neh. 9.26. They cast the Law behind their backs, as a man casts a thing that he despiseth, behind his back. A Sinner Judgeth the Law. Jam. 4.11. by transgressing it, he judgeth it to be a bad Law. Is such blasphemy a light matter, or to be mocked at? Sin is Rebellion against the Lord. Hos. 13.16 Samaria has rebelled against her God. Sinners make an Insurrection against Heaven. Mic. 2 8. They are risen up against me as an Enemy. They take up Arms against the Infinite and Eternal Majesty. Act 5 39 They are found even to fight against God. Sin grieveth the Heart of God. When the Old World became exceeding sinful, it repented the Lord that he made man on the Earth, and it grieved him at the heart. Gen. 6.6. […] the Children of Israel were in the ⟨p. 14⟩