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The sad effects of sin. A true relation of the murder committed by David…
The sad effects of sin. A true relation of the murder committed by David Wallis, on his companion Benjamin Stolwood: on Saturday night, the first of August, 1713. With his carriage oftener condemnation; his confession and dying speech at the place of execution, &c. : To which are added, the sermons preached at the lecture in Boston, in his hearing, after condemnation; and on the day of his execution, being Sept. 24. 1713.The sad effects of sin. A true relation of the murder committed by David Wallis, on his companion Benjamin Stolwood: on Saturday night, the first of August, 1713. With his carriage ofter condemnation; his confession and dying speech at the place of execution, &c. : To which are added, the sermons preached at the lecture in Boston, in his hearing, after condemnation; and on the day of his execution, being Sept. 24. 1713.
printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1713
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Restraints Merciful & Wonderful. Boston-Lecture, 10. d. 7. m. 1713. › APPLICATION.
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Thirdly. We may wonder, That there is any True People of God Left in the World; and that the Burning Bush is not Consumed. Our Lord-Redeemer has through' all Ages, a Church visibly Existing on the Face of the Earth; His Willing, ⟨p. 25⟩and His Holy People. The Generation of them that seek Him: A Generation which Condemns the World, and Offends it, and […] it, and must not marvel, if it be […] of the World Satan, who is the God of this World, and the Spirit that works in the Children of Disobedience, fills his Children with an implacable Aversion and Antipathy for this People of God. They will grant not only Liberties, but also Preferments, to Devils Incarnate […] yea, tho' they may differ very much among one another. But they will turn every Stone, that the Children of God may be Discouraged, and even Exterminated. The Persecution of Dissenters, has been in all Ages carried on; Always with most Unreasonable Barbarities, and sometimes, to an Extremity of cruel Dissipations; even such an Extremity, that the Dioclesians on the Thrones of Iniquity, have boasted, of a, Superstition Christiana deleta; That there was no more Christianity •eft in the World. But still the Church of our Lord, Our-lives the Attempts of all its Adversaries, yea, gains ground, grows great, & improves by those Attempts; and having Obtained ⟨p. 26⟩Help from God, it continues to this Day. The Song of the Church in all Ages hath been that; Psa. LXXVI. 10. Surely, The wrath of man shall praise thee, the Remainder of that Wrath shalt thou Restrain. We can hardly tell whence it is, That tho' the Wolves bring forth many more at a Litter, than the Sheep; and we seldom hear of a Wolf killed, when the Sheep is every day Led into the Shambles; yet there are a thousand times more Sheep known in the World than there are of those ravening Devourers. But I now propound a much stranger thing than this. The Faithful People of God, are Counted like sheep for the slaughter all the Day long. They are but a Little Flock, a very Little Little Flock; The Wolves, they, as it was of Old said about a Syrian Herd of them, Fill the Country. Now, Whence is it, that the Church is not utterly cut off; & the Name of it, no more had in Remembrance! Why have no Days of Purim, and of Bartholomew, nor Irish Massacres totally Extinguished it? Our Good God has acquainted us with the Reason of it; I withheld them. Oh!