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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 4. Within a few days you will be in Eternity, and then Repentance will be too late. Within a few days you will be gone down into the Pit, and they that go down into the pit, cannot hope for Gods Truth. When once your Soul is separated from your Body, there is a Gulf fixed: It is fixed in a Gulf of Eternity, and that is a great Gulf indeed. Within a few minutes after your Soul is out of your Body, you […] where you must be throughout […] Ages. If Death find you a penitent ⟨p. 44⟩Believer, as soon as ever your Soul is out of your Body, Holy Angels will carry it to a better World than this is; but if otherwise, cruel Devils will go with it to a place of torment; and there must it remain until the General Resurrection, when Soul and Body shall appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ, you must be tried and judged over again in that day, when all your secret sins will be laid open before Angels and men. The man (Christ Jesus the Son of God) whom God has ordained to be the Judge of the whole World, will then Sentence you to Death, yea, to be Burnt to death. Thou thinkest it is […] thing (and so it is) that you are Sentenced to be hanged to death; •ut Oh! what will it be when the Son of God shall doom thee to Eternal Fire, and Command his Holy Angels to see Execution done upon thee accordingly. They will cast thee, Body and Soul into the Fire. Dost thou not remember how Dives cried out being in Hell and in Torments, O for a drop of water to cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. Woeful Wretch! As thou hast sinned with thy Body, so must thy Body as well as thy Soul burn for it. Those bloody […] ⟨p. 45⟩which have murdered thy child must be in torments. That wicked tongue which has told many a lie, must be in torment; yea, thy whole Body must be cast into Hell. And how long must you be in this misery. After thou hast been in that Fire as many millions of Ages as there are sands on the Sea shore, thou shalt be no nearer to an end of it, then thou wast the first hour that it came upon thee. This! This! will be thy portion as sure as this Bible is the Word of God, if thou dyest an impenitent, Unbelieving Creature. Oh! Consider of it. Some words of Coun•el, Let me set before you.
Consider 4. Within a few dayes you will be in Eternity, and then Repentance will be too late. Within a few dayes you will be gone down into the Pit, and they that go down into the pit, cannot hope for Gods Truth. When once your Soul is separated from your Body, there is a Gulf fixed: It is fixed in a Gulf of Eternity, and that is a great Gulf indeed. Within a few minutes after your Soul is out of your Body, you where you must be throughout Ages. If Death find you a penitent