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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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III. The Third […] Thing, in which the […] the Trumpet is to wax yet Louder and Louder unto us, is this: 'Tis a Dreadful Thing for any one to Dye without the Fear of God.
III. The Third 〈…〉 Thing, in which the 〈…〉 the Trumpet is to wax yet Louder and Louder unto us, is this: 'Tis a Dreadful Thing for any one to Dye without the Fear of God.
Why was the Convert so much in Earnest, that his poor Friend might have in him the Fear of God? Why, He was just a Dying. He was to Dye that Afternoon. If he Died before he had the Fear of God wrought in him, he must pass into a very Bad Condition after Death. Had it not been so, to what purpose had it been so earnestly to inculcate the Fear of God upon him! Truly, If any Man Dye, before he have a Soul Impregnated, Rectified, Purified, by the Fear of God, the least that can be said, is; It had been good for that Man, that he had never been Born. If the Life of Man come to an end, before the Fear of God has begun to Regulate his Life, his Death will bring a dreadful Change upon him. 'Tis a fear […] Thing for a Soul to go […] of the World, not marked with the Fear of God for Blessedness in another […] Never, never was there heard a mo•• Astonishing Thunderclap, than that Word; Joh. VIII. 24. Ye shall Dye in your Sins. This, this will be the Fa•e ⟨p. 68⟩of them, who Dye without the Fear of God. They Dye in their Sins, and their Death is a Trap-door, that lets them down into horrible Miseries.
Why was the Convert so much in Earnest, that his poor Friend might have in him the Fear of God? Why, He was just a Dying. He was to Dye that Afternoon. If he Dy'd before he had the Fear of God wrought in him, he must pass into a very Bad Condition after Death. Had it not been so, to what purpose had it been so earnestly to inculcate the Fear of God upon him! Truly, If any Man Dye, before he have a Soul Impregnated, Rectified, Purified, by the Fear of God, the least that can be said, is; It had been good for that Man, that he had never been Born. If the Life of Man come to an end, before the Fear of God has begun to Regulate his Life, his Death will bring a dreadful Change upon him. 'Tis a fear Thing for a Soul to go of the World, not marked with the Fear of God for Blessedness in another Never, never was there heard a mo Astonishing Thunderclap, than that Word;