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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.
4. Sin is the procuring cause of all those Judgments which men are exposed unto Jer. 4.18. Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee: This is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth to •hine heart. What bitter sorrows and miseries do some Sinners undergo? They may thank Sin for it all. Should they then mock at, and make mirth with sin? There are three sorts of Judgments which Sin exposeth men unto; all which show that it is not an evil to be made light of.
4. Sin is the procuring cause of all those Iudgments which men are exposed unto Jer. 4.18. Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee: This is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth to •hine heart. What bitter sorrows and miseries do some Sinners undergo? They may thank Sin for it all. Should they then mock at, and make mirth with sin? There are three sorts of Judgments which Sin exposeth men unto; all which show that it is not an evil to be made light of.
1. There are Temporal Judgments. All the Afflictions which befall the Sinner whilst in this World are the fruit of Sin. Psal. 107.17. Fools because of their Transgression, and because of their Iniquity, are afflicted. Poverty is a great affliction, and Sin is the cause of it. That provokes the Lord to send Impoverishing Judgments on a whole Land sometimes. Isa 42.24. Who gave Jacob for a Spoil, and Israel to the Robbers? End not the Lord he against whom we have sinned? M•n loose their Estates by Enemies, […] water, by Fire. […] if it had not been for Sin, none of all this would ever have been. For a man […] loose his good Name is a greater evil […] ⟨p. 25⟩