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Faithful warnings to prevent fearful judgments. Uttered in a brief discourse, occasioned, by a…
Faithful warnings to prevent fearful judgments. Uttered in a brief discourse, occasioned, by a tragical spectacle, in a number of miserables under a sentence of death for piracy. At Boston in N.E. Jun. 22. 1704. : [Five lines of quotations]
Boston, : Printed & sold by Timothy Green, at the north end of the town., 1704
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But then there succeeds another Evil. Horror of Conscience is an Evil that pursueth ⟨p. 14⟩Sinners; A most horrid Evil. An […] Conscience, is an Evil with a witness. […] Sinners, by being and by doing Evil, […] b•ing upon themselves that Comprehensible Evil; Heb. 10. 22. An Evil Conscience. A Guilty Conscience, does pursue the Sinners, with direful Intimations […] the Divine Displeasure against them with fearful Expectations of a fiery Indignation to devour them. Sinners carry • bout, a wonderful Faculty in their Soul which will pass a Judgment on them […] under the Judgment of God. GOD the Judge of all, hath so Inwrought and […] •aid this Faculty into the Souls of Sinners that tho' they use all the Arts imaginable, to Sear it, or Doze it, or Smother it, it will never be Extinguished. When Sin is perpetrated, a Guilt comes to […] upon the Conscience; the Conscience […] feel, and own, and roar the Obligations now lying upon the Sinner, to undergo the amazing Revenges of God. This Evil pursueth Sinners; and some Expositors take this to be the Special Evil intended, in that Oracle now speaking unto us. A Sinner needs no other Pursuers ⟨p. 15⟩••iamsi nullus alius accedat, vel Index, […] Judex; It was said, Prov. 28. 1. The •icked flee, when no man pursueth. A wicked man has in his own Conscience a Thousand Pursuers: His own Conscience will •og him, as an Officer Commissioned by the God of Heaven, and will take him, and hold him, and ••ale him, before the Tribunal of God. Of the Sinner we •ad, Job 15. 21. A dreadful Sound is in his Ears. A Guilty Conscience makes a Dreadful Sound in the Ears of the Sinner; […] Cries, it Shri•ks, it Thunders; The finite God is Angry with thee, thou impious creature; and thou shalt be made a miserable Sacrifice to the Burning Anger of Heaven, in the Bottom of Hell, for thy […]! I will show my Young People, where they shall have this Dreadful Sound most Articulately uttered; It is in those tremendous Words of God, unto Young Sinners;