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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.
1. Endeavour that your Sorrow for Sin may be a Godly Sorrow. For Godly Sorrow works Repentance which is unto Salvation. 2 Cor. 7.10. Do not mourn for Sin, only because you have hurt your self by being such a Fool. You have disgraced your self, and ruined your self. Or, because you have brought dishonour upon all your Relations, and in a special manner on your Parents. That should indeed be an heart breaking thought […]: you: but most of all you should mourn […] because thereby you have dishonoured ⟨p. 46⟩the Name, and grieved the Spirit of God.
1. Endeavour that your Sorrow for Sin may be a Godly Sorrow. For Godly Sorrow works Repentance which is unto Salvation. 2 Cor. 7.10. Do not mourn for Sin, only because you have hurt your self by being such a Fool. You have disgraced your self, and ruined your self. Or, because you have brought dishonour upon all your Relations, and in a special manner on your Parents. That should indeed be an heart breaking thought 〈…〉: you: but most of all you should mourn 〈…〉 because thereby you have dishonoured ⟨p. 46⟩the Name, and grieved the Spirit of God.
2. Do not persist in any Sin. It is not confessing but forsaking Sin that will prove you to be a true penitent. Turn from all sin. Stand not in any Lye. I charge you before God, and as you will answer it at the peril of your Soul, that you neither clear any guilty, nor accuse any Innocent person of committing Folly with you. I speak this the rather because you have accused one who not only denies what you have charged him with, but ha's appealed to God concerning his Innocency. Having done so, in case he should be guilty, I am persuaded the waters of Jealousy will come into his Bowels, and like Oil into his Bones. God who will not hold them guiltless that take his Name in Vain, useth to make those that Tempt him to show his Omniscience by appealing to Him when they know themselves guilty, to become awful Examples of Divine Vengeance. But I am willing to hope better things, and if there be nothing against him besides the accusation of so Wicked and Lying a Creature as you have been, there is no suffici reason for uncharitable thoughts. […]