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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.
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. Rom. 5.14. There was horrid unbelief in that sin. Adam gave more credit to the Devil in the Serpent who said, you shall not surely Die, than to the God of Truth, who said, you surely shall. There was intolerable Pride & Discontent in that sin. When God his Maker had made him Lord over all the Creatures on the face of the Earth, he was not satisfied with that, but aspired to be a God too. There was Sacrilegious ingratitude in that sin of Adam, since […] ⟨p. 51⟩God had been so bountiful as to give him free leave to eat of all the Trees in Eden excepting one, he would be Stealing that too. Yet this grievous sin is by a Righteous Imputation the sin of every man. The Papists say of their Bonaventure, In hoc homine non peccavit Adam, that he had no guilt of Adams sin upon him. But the Apostle tells us, that in Adam all have sinned.