N00731:9
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
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.
Prov. XIV. 9. Fools make a Mock at Sin.
THERE is a great Variety of Readings, and thence of Interpretation of these words among Expositors, which I shall not trouble you, my design not […] Criticize, which would tend little […] edification of such an Auditory, ⟨image ?⟩[…] plain and practical […] of God.
THERE is a great Variety of Readings, and thence of Interpretation of these words among Expositors, which I shall not trouble you, my design not 〈…〉 Criticize, which would tend little 〈…〉 •dification of such an Auditory, ⟨image ?⟩〈…〉 plain and practical 〈…〉 of God.
[…] this verse, two sorts of […], viz. Fools and […] […] righteous are described in the latter part of the verse. It is said, That with them is favour, or as the Hebrew word (Ratzon) may be translated, Pleasure. Righteous men take pleasure in doing righteous things. They delight in keeping the Law. It is a pleasure to them to please God; but Fools (who are in the words before us set in opposition to the Righteous) are described from a contrary property; their delight is in Sin. They mock at Sin. They deride (as the original word is sometimes rendered) at being guilty of Sin. Their own and other mens sins are more a matter of mirth than any thing else. They make a light matter of it. Sin is the least thing that troubleth them. This is here mentioned as a sign of extreme folly. Wherefore the Doctrine from the words, is,