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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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Thirdly. They that are Incorrigible Sinners under Sufferings, are unquestionably Unconverted Sinners. We read; Psal. CXIX. 71. It is good for me, that I have been Afflicted, that I might learn thy Statutes. It is then good for us that we have Suffered any Humbling Things, when we are quickened in and by our Sufferings, to Learn, and to Love, and to Do the Statutes of God. There is a true Conversion to God, in doing so. Under Sufferings, to be brought into the Frames, and unto the Rules of a New-Creature; under Sufferings, to be brought into the Covenant of God, and of His Grace, and unto a consent unto all the Articles of […] under Sufferings, to Embrace a Precious CHRIST, in all His Offices, for and with all His Benefits; And under ⟨p. 64⟩Sufferings to have all Sin rendered Abominable to us; This is to get Good by Sufferings. But they who are Strangers to these things, are Unconverted Sinners. And all Unconverted Sinners, are Strangers to the Fear of God. Unto every Unconverted, and Unregenerate Soul, Thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and my Fear is not in thee, faith the Lord God of Hosts. This cannot be questioned.
Thirdly. They that are Incorrigible Sinners under Sufferings, are unquestionably Unconverted Sinners. We read; Psal. CXIX. 71. It is good for me, that I have been Afflicted, that I might learn thy Statutes. It is then good for us that we have Suffered any Humbling Things, when we are quickened in and by our Sufferings, to Learn, and to Love, and to Do the Statutes of God. There is a true Conversion to God, in doing so. Under Sufferings, to be brought into the Frames, and unto the Rules of a New-Creature; under Sufferings, to be brought into the Covenant of God, and of His Grace, and unto a consent unto all the Articles of 〈…〉 under Sufferings, to Embrace a Precious CHRIST, in all His Offices, for and with all His Benefits; And under ⟨p. 64⟩Sufferings to have all Sin rendred Abominable to us; This is to get Good by Sufferings. But they who are Strangers to these things, are Unconverted Sinners. And all Unconverted Sinners, are Strangers to the Fear of God. Unto every Unconverted, and Unregenerate Soul, Thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and my Fear is not in thee, faith the Lord God of Hosts. This cannot be questioned.