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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 2 › Proposition 2: PROPOSITION. II.
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.
THERE are some, yea many who make light of Sin. Notwithstanding Sin is such an evil as has been declared, and they that make a light matter of being guilty of it, show themselves to be Fools▪ the world is full of such Fools. This will appear, if we consider who they are that do thus.
THERE are some, yea many who make light of Sin. Notwithstanding Sin is such an evil as has been declared, and they that make a light matter of being guilty of it, shew themselves to be Fools▪ the world is full of such Fools. This will appear, if we consider who they are that do thus.
1. They that have little or no remorse for Sin. Who lay not sin to heart when Committed either by themselves or others. An instance hereof we have in Josephs then ungodly Brethren, who after they had thrown him into the pit, it is noted concerning them that they Sat down to eat bread. Gen. 3 7.25. Intimating that they had little sense of the evil they had done. They were not grieved for the Affliction of Joseph, nor yet for their own sin in the wrong they had done him. Had they had a due sense thereof, they would have […] little heart to eat bread. There are ⟨p. 50⟩few in the world that lay sin to heart as they should do. The Prophet complained that there were in a manner none. Jer. 8.6. I hearkened and heard, but no man repented of his wickedness, saying what have I done. There are great sins, which but few have a due sense of their guiltiness before God in respect of them. Adams Sin was a great one: An heinous transgression is expressed, by saying, Like Adam they have transgressed the Covenant. Hos. 6.7. He sinned against a positive Express Commandment to the contrary. Hast thou Eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not at, said God unto him. So that he sinned against knowledge. Wherefore, sinning against knowledge, is called a sinning after the Similitude of Adams transgression.