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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 3: PROPOSITION. III.
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.
That Sinners are Fools. The things which ⟨p. 68⟩have been spoken prove them to be so. None but Fools would make a light matter of such an Evil as Sin is. But further to enlarge on the Probation of the Truth before us.
That Sinners are Fools. The things which ⟨p. 68⟩have been spoken prove them to be so. None but Fools would make a light matter of such an Evil as Sin is. But further to inlarge on the Probation of the Truth before us.
1. The Scripture every where speaks of Sinners as of Fools. How often are they in the Holy Writings, (in the Book of Job; and in the Psalms, and in Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) called fools. The Scripture says of them that they are foolish. Psal. 5.4. The foolish, i. e. Sinners shall not stand in thy sight. When they come to be tried for their lives before Gods Tribunal, they will not be able to stand in the judgment. The Hebrew word HOLEPIM, there Translated foolish, signifieth mad men, or such as rave with folly; Sinners are subject to moral madness: If they were not raving mad they would never do as they do. Madness is in their hearts as long as they live, and after that they go to the dead, nay, to the damned. Sinners are said to be without knowledge. Psal. 14.4. Have all the workers of Iniquity no knowledge. Truly, there is not one of them all that has any saving knowledge; such of them as are wise to do evil, to do good they have no knowledge. Isa. 27.11. It is a ⟨p. 69⟩people of no understanding. They are called simple ones.