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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.
Wherefore Sin which strikes at the Life of God, is the highest Treason. And is it then to be made light of? By what has been said, it is manifest, that Sin is highly displeasing to the Lord; and the Lord himself has in more ways then one made it known, that Sin does provoke the Eyes of his Glory. He has made men and Angels to see that he can not endure it, by his punishing of it. Sometimes the Holy God has […] ⟨p. 17⟩dreadful punishment on his Creatures for one sin. So He did on all the Angels that sinned. Jude 6 The Angels which kept not their first estate, he has reserved in Everlasting Chains under darkness, unto the Judgment of the Great Day. Would the Great God banish millions of those most Glorious Creatures out of Heaven, and damn them to Chains of Everlasting Darkness, for one sin, it Sin were not an evil infinitely displeasing to him! So Adam and all his Posterity, of which there are thousands of millions, are made miserable for one sin. They are all condemned to die for that one sin. Rom. 5.12. By one man Sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men. And in verse 14. It is said, that Death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not Sinned after the similitude of Adams Transgression. There were about two thousand and five hundred years from Adam to Moses. All that lived in that Time, even Infants, and all who never sinned after the similitude of Adams Transgression, yet are dead, because of that sin of his. So all that have lived and died in succeeding Ages. In ver. 18. the Apostle says, […] by the offence of one, (or as the words ⟨p. 18⟩di henos paraptomatos may be read) by one offence Judgment came upon all men to Condemnation. No Sin of Adam, excepting one, was imputed to his Posterity, viz. his first sin in eating the forbidden fruit; for after that he ceased to be a public person representing all mankind; so then, for that one sin, he and all his Posterity were condemned to Death. Behold yet further the severity of God. He has sometimes punished seemingly little sins after a dreadful manner, that men might see how their sins displease him, and that they might tremble to sin against him.