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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.
Consider 2. If you go to the Lord with a truly penitent heart, God will for Christ sake forgive your sin. This will God do, not for the sake of your penitence, (be ashamed and confounded thou sinful Creature) but for the sake of the merit of the Death of his own Son, who shed his Blood, that so the bloodiest Sinners who penitently believe on his Name, might be […] and saved from Eternal Death. ⟨p. 40⟩That Sentence of Death which is passed on you as to your Body, cannot be reversed; but the Sentence of Everlasting Death may. As yet it is possible that you may be saved from the Second Death. There is merit enough in the Death of Christ to make atonement for as great Sinners as you are. His Blood is a Fountain set open for Sin and for Uncleanness. Zech. 13.1. But to whom is it set open? To them that mourn in Jerusalem. Thy heart has been an Hell of Sin: A Sink of Uncleanness, but if thy heart be broken for your sins, the opened Fountain of the Blood of Christ will make that horribly defiled Soul to become pure, and it shall live. The Lord Jesus Christ excludes none from partaking in the Salvation purchased by the price of his Blood, because they have been great Sinners. He came into the world to save the chief of Sinners. As great sinners as ever lived in the world, upon their repenting and believing on his Name, have through the exceeding abundant Grace of God, had all their sins forgiven. What black Sinners had some of the Corinthians been, before their Conversion? They had been guilty of Fornication, and besides […] ⟨p. 41⟩Unnatural Wickedness; but when they repented and believed on the Name of Jesus Christ the only Son of God, they were washed, and sanctified, and justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Cor. 6.9, 10, 11. David committed Adultery, and to hide his Sin became guilty of Murder; but upon his sincere repentance, God forgave the Iniquity; that is, remitted the punishment of his sin, as to that Eternal Death which his sin deserved. His prayer was heard, when he said with a truly penitent heart, Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God. Psal. 51.14. What a bloody Sinner had Manasseh been? He […] streets of Jerusalem with innocent blood;