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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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Know therefore that you must either live or die forever according as you shall obey this Commandment of the Gospel. It is said of the Gentiles, that God gave them Repentance unto Life. Act. 11.19. So then Life is concerned. As for Impenitent sinners, they are all under a sentence of Condemnation. The Law ha's found them guilty: And God the Judge of all ha's Condemned them to dye Eternally. It is in vain for any Sinner in the world to think that the sentence of Death which God ha's pronounced upon him shall be reversed, or his Sins pardoned if he repent not. Yea, it is in vain for him to hope that because he pretends to Faith in Christ his Sins shall be remitted. For that Faith in Christ which is not attended […] unfeigned Repentance is no true […] Christ ha's therefore Commanded ⟨p. 36⟩that Repentance and Remission of Sins should be Preached in his Name. Act. 24 47. To Preach remission of Sins in the Name of Christ, without Preaching Repentance is to profane that Sacred Name. Oh then if ever you would have your Sins pardoned, and so your Souls to live for ever, Repent and turn from all your Transgressions. And therefore think seriously and sadly of the day of Judgment. God Commands all men to repent, because he ha's appointed a day in which he will Judge the World in Righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained. Act. 17 31. Would you have all your Secret Sins revealed in the hearing of Heaven and Earth? If you would not, repent of them all▪ that so they may be blotted out of that book where they are all written. Remember this awful word; If thou shouldest die with the guilt of but one Sin on thy Soul Unrepented of, at the day of Judgment thou wilt wish that thou hast never been-born. And to awaken them unto repentance, let Sinners know that that great day of the Lord is near at hand. Christs coming to Judge the Earth is not so far off, as carnal hearts wish, and as a secure world does imagine. Most of those things which the […] ⟨p. 37⟩ha's said must come to pass before the Second Coming of Christ, are already fulfilled. And therefore that glorious day cannot be very far off. As therefore the Lord said when the time was near wherein his Evangelical Kingdom was to be revealed.