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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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but when the Providence of God brought him into Chains (as he has done you) he humbled himself greatly before the Lord, and prayed unto him, and he was entreated of him If you would do so, who knows but that the merciful God would look upon you? Some of those Jews who were the betrayers and murderers of the Son of God himself, which was the greatest Crime that ever men were guilty of, yet upon their repenting and believing on him […] they had with wicked hands Slain ⟨p. 42⟩and Crucified, obtained through him the forgiveness of that, and all other sins which they had been guilty of. Such Instances are recorded in the Scripture, that so no Sinners, (no, not the greatest) might despair of finding mercy upon true Repentance towards God, and Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
but when the Providence of God brought him into Chains (as he has done you) he humbl•d himself greatly before the Lord, and prayed unto him, and he was entreated of him If you would do so, who knows but that the merciful God would look upon you? Some of those Jews who were the betrayers and murderers of the Son of God himself, which was the greatest Crime that ever men were guilty of, yet upon their repenting and believing on him 〈…〉 they had with wicked hands Sl•in ⟨p. 42⟩and Crucified, obtained through him the forgiveness of that, and all other sins which they had been guilty of. Such Instances are recorded in the Scripture, that so no Sinners, (no, not the greatest) might despair of finding mercy upon true Repentance towards God, and Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Consider 3. If you die in your sins without Repentance, you shall receive no ordinary damnation: Because you have sinned not only against the Law of God more heinously than many have done, but also against the Gospel of Christ. You have refused to hear the […] reached many a time when you might have done it. I remember one that was Executed in this Town many years ago, for the same Crime which you have been guilty of, and must die for; Confessed that his neglecting to hear the Word of God, which he frequently absented himself from on the Lords Days, lay as an heavy burden on his Conscience; and so it should do on yours. To go to Hell from under the Gospel is a fearful thing. Since you Imprisonment, nay, since your […] on, yea, and this very day, the […]