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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.
But let me direct this Exhortation particularly, To that Miserable Condemned Young Creature,1 who is here before the Lord in this house this day. Poor Wretch! hearken as for thy Life and Soul. I know you have with you some Printed Sermons which were Preached on Occasion of the Execution of some who were Condemned for the same bloody Crime which you […] Convicted of, and must dye for. ⟨p. 38⟩Nevertheless, a few things let me now speak to you in the Name of the Lord.
But let me direct this Exhortation particularly, To that Miserable Condemned Young Creature,1 who is here before the Lord in this house this day. Poor Wretch! hearken as for thy Life and Soul. I know you have with you some Printed Sermons which were Preached on Occasion of the Execution of some who were Condemned for the same bloody Crime which you 〈…〉 Convicted of, and must dye for. ⟨p. 38⟩Nevertheless, a few things let me now speak to you in the Name of the Lord.
- 1Sarah Threeneedle.
Consider. 1. You have been a great Sinner: And in very Truth a great Fool. Although you are little & young in years, you are great in Wickedness. It is seldom seen that one so young as you are, ha's been guilty of such Prodigious wickedness. You are (as I understand) hardly Nineteen years old, and yet ripe for a Lamentable Destruction as to your Body, if not as to your Soul. You are known to be guilty of Fornication and that more than once, and with more persons than one, as young as you are: Oh horrid Shame! But besides that, you have been guilty of Murder: Yea, and of unnatural Murder too. Can a woman forget her Sucking Child that she should not have Compassion on the Son of her Womb? She may, but then she must be unnatural. And so monstrously unnatural have you been, as not to have Compassion on the Son of your Womb: but to be guilty of Murdering it, whose blood Cries for Vengeance against you, from the ground where you exposed it to death. You have defiled the Land wherein you live. It should be an humbling Consideration to you, that all this Provinc […]