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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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Lastly. Sinners Incorrigible under Sufferings, proclaim themselves without Fear that the Justice of God, may yet bring more heavy Sufferings upon them. They make a Fearless, Daring, Hardy Challenge to the Justice of God. God threatens them who are Incorrigible under their Sufferings, at that rate; Lev. XXVI. 23, 24. If ye will not be Reformed by these Things, then will I Punish you yet seven times more for your Sins. God will go on, Punishing the Incorrigible Sinner, and Multiplying His Plagues upon him, until he has destroyed the Sinner wonderfully. God will go on still in His Inflictions, if the Sinner will go on still ⟨p. 65⟩in his Trespasses. Yea, 'Tis the tremendous Commination of God; After thy Hardness and Impenitent Heart, O Incorrigible Sinner, thou shalt find thou hast been treasuring up Wrath against the Day of Wrath, and thy woeful Portion will be in the Perdition of Ungodly Men. But, the Incorrigible are not afraid of what a just God will do unto them. No, you Wretches, whose Heart-strings are Sinews of Iron, you Fear it not! This fully proves the Indictment, That the Malefactors have not the Fear of God before their Eyes.
Lastly. Sinners Incorrigible under Sufferings, proclaim themselves without Fear that the Justice of God, may yet bring more heavy Sufferings upon them. They make a Fearless, Darring, Hardy Challenge to the Justice of God. God threatens them who are Incorrigible under their Sufferings, at that rate; Lev. XXVI. 23, 24. If ye will not be Reformed by these Things, then will I Punish you yet seven times more for your Sins. God will go on, Punishing the Incorrigible Sinner, and Multiplying His Plagues upon him, until he has destroy'd the Sinner wonderfully. God will go on still in His Inflictions, if the Sinner will go on still ⟨p. 65⟩in his Trespasses. Yea, 'Tis the tremendous Commination of God; After thy Hardness and Impenitent Heart, O Incorrigible Sinner, thou shalt find thou hast been treasuring up Wrath against the Day of Wrath, and thy woful Portion will be in the Perdition of Ungodly Men. But, the Incorrigible are not afraid of what a just God will do unto them. No, you Wretches, whose Heart-strings are Sinews of Iron, you Fear it not! This fully proves the Indictment, That the Malefactors have not the Fear of God before their Eyes.