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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.
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When Tamar was Solicited by a Courtier and a Royal Person to Consent unto a great Sin, she said, (and it was well and wisely spoken) And I whither shall I cause my shame to go; and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. 2 Sam. 13.13. As for them who make a mock of the greatest Sins, (be they who they will) if ever ⟨p. 89⟩God intend them mercy he will make them sensible of the greatness of their folly. There was a great instance hereof in the late Earle of Rochester, who had been as great an Atheist as perhaps was in King Charles his Court. But when God opened his eyes on a death-bed, he said to his former Companions: (and gave it under his hand that it might make the greater impression on them) he warned by me, as ever you regard the welfare of your immortal Souls, no more to mock at sin. And another late Example like to this was in Sir Alan Broderick, who had been one of the greatest Debauches of this Atheistical age, but when he was dying he bewailed his having spent so great a part of his Life in the Sports and follies of Sin, professing that now he saw the Folly and Unreasonableness of Sin, so as that no Temptation in the world could prevail with him to sin any more as formerly.
When Thamar was Sollicited by a Courtier and a Royal Person to Consent unto a great Sin, she said, (and it was well and wisely spoken) And I whither shall I cause my shame to go; and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. 2 Sam. 13.13. As for them who make a mock of the greatest Sins, (be they who they will) if ever ⟨p. 89⟩God intend them mercy he will make them sensible of the greatness of their folly. There was a great instance hereof in the late Earle of Rochester, who had been as great an Atheist as perhaps was in King Charles his Court. But when God opened his eyes on a death-bed, he said to his former Companions: (and gave it under his hand that it might make the greater impression on them) he warned by me, as ever you regard the welfare of your immortal Souls, no more to mock at sin. And another late Example like to this was in Sir Alan Broderick, who had been one of the greatest Debauches of this Atheistical age, but when he was dying he bewayled his having spent so great a part of his Life in the Sports and follies of Sin, professing that now he saw the Folly and Unreasonableness of Sin, so as that no Temptation in the world could prevail with him to sin any more as formerly.