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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.
Yea, (which is awful to […] ⟨p. 29⟩Sins of Omission provoke the Lord to leave men to sins of Commission. Psal. 81.11, 12. Israel would none of me. So I gave them up to their own hearts lust. Hearken •ou that live in the neglect of Religious Duties: You that live without Prayer in your Families. I have a dismal Story to tell you, and yet a true one. There was a man Condemned and Executed for an odious Crime, (whom God out of his Infinite Grace made a remarkable penitent) he then said, that he believed his Sins of Omission, and in special his neglecting Prayer in his Family, provoked God to leave him unto other sins, and at last to that sin for which he justly suffered Death. Then let no man among you that has a Family, dare to live without Prayer therein.
Yea, (which is awful to 〈…〉 ⟨p. 29⟩Sins of Omission provoke the Lord to leave men to sins of Commission. Psal. 81.11, 12. Israel would none of me. So I gave them up to their own hearts lust. Hearken •ou that live in the neglect of Religious Duties: You that live without Prayer in your Families. I have a dismal Story to tell you, and yet a true one. There was a man Condemned and Executed for an odious Crime, (whom God out of his Infinite Grace made a remarkable penitent) he then said, that he believed his Sins of Omission, and in special his neglecting Prayer in his Family, provoked God to leave him unto other sins, and at last to that sin for which he justly suffered Death. Then let no man among you that has a Family, dare to live without Prayer therein.