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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 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 […] ⟨p. 43⟩of the Gospel has been offered to you. It is an astonishing thing, that the Great God should offer a pardon and Eternal Salvation to such an one as you are; but Infinite Grace doth so. How shall you escape the sorest Damnation, if you regard not this offer of mercy. If Indians that never heard of the Name of Christ, commit such sins as you have done, they must go to Hell for it, but not to such a fiery place there as you shall, because of your disobedience to the Calls of the Gospel. It will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah at the Day of Judgment, then for the despisers of the Gospel, and of the Grace of God. […] 14, 15.
Consider 3. If you dy 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 dy 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 〈…〉 ⟨p. 43⟩of the Gospel has been offered to you. It is an astonishing thing, that the Great God should offer a pardon and Eternal Salvation to such an one as you are; but Infinite Grace doth so. How shall you escape the sorest Damnation, if you regard not this offer of mercy. If Indians that never heard of the Name of Christ, commit such sins as you have done, they must go to Hell for it, but not to such a fiery place there as you shall, because of your disobedience to the Calls of the Gospel. It will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah at the Day of Judgment, then for the despisers of the Gospel, and of the Grace of God. 14, 15.