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A sorrowful spectacle. In two sermons, occasioned by a just sentence of death, on…
A sorrowful spectacle. In two sermons, occasioned by a just sentence of death, on a miserable woman, for the murder of a spurious offspring. : The one declaring, the evil of an heart hardened, under and against all means of good. : The other describing, the fearful case of such as in a suffering time, and much more such as in a dying hour, are found without the fear of God. : With some remarkable things, relating to the criminal; proper for all to be informed of. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [One line from Acts]
Boston: printed by T. Fleet & T. Crump for Samuel Gerrish, 1715
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Secondly. Some who Sinned before they Suffered, fall into New and more Sins, after their Sufferings. Evil Men wax worse and worse under those Things, which they should have grown Better upon. We read of such […] Incurable; 2 Chron. XXVIII. 22. In the time of his Distress, did he Trespass yet more against the Lord. There are many Fools, who because of their Transgressions, and because of their Iniquities, are Afflicted. And yet they add new Transgressions, and add new Iniquities, unto the old Score of their Enormities; This they do after their Afflictions. They have Sinned, and they have Smarted; And, for all this they have Sinned still; and they have ⟨p. 61⟩added new Sins unto the vast Heap of their Provocations; and been more Sinful, in further Out-breakings, and Outrages of Impiety. 'Tis especially thus, when People do like the Wicked Thief on the Cross, Blaspheme God under their Afflictions; When they are full of Discontent, full of Impatience, full of Murmuring under their Afflictions; full of Envy against those who do not endure the like Afflictions; When they take Indirect Courses to escape their Afflictions, unlawful Methods to abate their Afflictions. That ever the World should have such Monsters in it!
Secondly. Some who Sinned before they Suffered, fall into New and more Sins, after their Sufferings. Evil Men wax worse and worse under those Things, which they should have grown Better upon. We read of such 〈…〉 Incurable; 2 Chron. XXVIII. 22. In the time of his Distress, did he Trespass yet more against the Lord. There are many Fools, who because of their Transgressions, and because of their Iniquities, are Afflicted. And yet they add new Transgressions, and add new Iniquities, unto the old Score of their Enormities; This they do after their Afflictions. They have Sinned, and they have Smarted; And, for all this they have Sinned still; and they have ⟨p. 61⟩added new Sins unto the vast Heap of their Provocations; and been more Sinful, in further Out-breakings, and Outrages of Impiety. 'Tis especially thus, when People do like the Wicked Thief on the Cross, Blaspheme God under their Afflictions; When they are full of Discontent, full of Impatience, full of Murmuring under their Afflictions; full of Envy against those who do not endure the like Afflictions; When they take Indirect Courses to escape their Afflictions, unlawful Methods to abate their Afflictions. That ever the World should have such Monsters in it!