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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.
They are not ashamed to maintain that for their Ecclesiastics, to marry is a sin, but for them to have Concubines is no sin. In Rome it self, filthy harlots are openly tolerated: Thus on her forehead is written the Mother of Harlots. It was said to the Apostate Church of Israel, thou hast an Whores Forehead. Jer. 3.3▪ because they did justify themselves in great Impieties; like lewd Harlots, who are not ashamed of the vilest Abominations. Alas! that there are men and women in the world so far degenerated, not only from righteous, but from ••tional Creatures, as not to be ashamed ⟨p. 60⟩of their living and doing more like brute than men; of such does the Prophet speak, Jer. 6.15. Were they ashamed when they had committed Abomination? They were not ashamed, nor would they at all blush. And do not such fools make a mock at sin?
They are not ashamed to maintain that for their Ecclesiasticks, to marry is a sin, but for them to have Concubines is no sin. In Rome it self, filthy harlots are openly tolerated: Thus on her forehead is written the Mother of Harlots. It was said to the Apostate Church of Israel, thou hast an Whores Forehead. Jer. 3.3▪ because they did justify themselves in great Impieties; like lewd Harlots, who are not ashamed of the vilest Abominations. Alas! that there are men and women in the world so far degenerated, not only from righteous, but from ••tional Creatures, as not to be ashamed ⟨p. 60⟩of their living and doing more like bruit• than men; of such does the Prophet speak, Jer. 6.15. Were they ashamed when they had committed Abomination? They were not ashamed, nor would they at all blush. And do not such fools make a mock at sin?