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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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These Things cannot well go off, without this Direction unto us. My Brethren, Give this Demonstration; that you have the Fear of God; Having suffered Evil Things, do not persist, Oh! no longer persist, in Doing any Evil Things. Be prevailed withal, to make this Use of all your Sufferings. Consider, What is the Errand which the Affliction I now suffer is come upon? Make that Request unto God; Job X. 2. Show me wherefore thou contendest ⟨p. 66⟩with me. But then, Repent, Oh! Repent of the Miscarriages, which have procured such a Suffering for you. It is a memorable Word; Rev. III. 19. As many as I Love, I Rebuke and Chasten; be Zealous therefore, and Repent. Christians, If you grow more Zealous of all good Works, and Repent of all your Evil Works, there has been the marvellous Love of God, in Rebuking and Chastening of you. Conform to the Will, Comply with the Call, of Him, who sends all your Sufferings, as His Messengers, upon you. Be Solicitous for nothing so much as this; Oh! that my Sufferings may not be lost upon me! This will Demonstrate, That you Fear God. And, O Lord, How great is thy Goodness, which thou hast laid up for them, who so do Fear […]!
These Things cannot well go off, without this Direction unto us. My Brethren, Give this Demonstration; that you have the Fear of God; Having suffered Evil Things, do not persist, Oh! no longer persist, in Doing any Evil Things. Be prevailed withal, to make this Use of all your Sufferings. Consider, What is the Errand which the Affliction I now suffer is come upon? Make that Request unto God; Job X. 2. Shew me wherefore thou contendest ⟨p. 66⟩with me. But then, Repent, Oh! Repent of the Miscarriages, which have procured such a Suffering for you. It is a memorable Word; Rev. III. 19. As many as I Love, I Rebuke and Chasten; be Zealous therefore, and Repent. Christians, If you grow more Zealous of all good Works, and Repent of all your Evil Works, there has been the marvellous Love of God, in Rebuking and Chastening of you. Conform to the Will, Comply with the Call, of Him, who sends all your Sufferings, as His Messengers, upon you. Be Sollicitous for nothing so much as this; Oh! that my Sufferings may not be lost upon me! This will Demonstrate, That you Fear God. And, O Lord, How great is thy Goodness, which thou hast laid up for them, who so do Fear !