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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Pulpit must now become a Sinai. And since you are now to stand before a Flaming Mountain, Be afraid, O ye Sinners in our Zion; Let Fearfulness also Surprise you, O ye Hypocrites thereof. I am to tell you;
The Pulpit must now become a Sinai. And since you are now to stand before a Flaming Mountain, Be afraid, O ye Sinners in our Zion; Let Fearfulness also Surprize you, O ye Hypocrites thereof. I am to tell you;
First. The Future State will be a Dismal State unto them, whose Death finds them in ill Terms with God. We have all possible Assurance, that after Death Men pass into a Future State. After Death a Judgment. A Redeemer, who by Rising from the Dead, asserted Himself to be the Eternal Son of God Incarnate, has assured us of it. The Future State, as it will be Inconceivably Happy to some, so it will be Unutterably Doleful to others. It will have such a Distribution as that; Matth. XXV. 46. The Wicked shall go away into everlasting Punishment; but the Righteous ⟨p. 69⟩into Life Eternal. Particularly; There are some, who at their Death have their Spirits turned among Devils: One may almost say, turned into Devils. They are confined unto very uneasy Confusions: Rueful Chains of Darkness are laid upon them. They languish under the amazing Terror of a Wrath to come; a Fiery Indignation that shall one Day Devour them. He will one Day Raise them from the Dead: But it will be, that He may inflict a Second Death upon them; and a Death which will have in it, a Torture suitable to the Demerit of their Offences: A Torture whereto all the Racks and Fires here, are but Metaphors. A Guilty Conscience will remain in their Spirits, and the Wrath of God therewith forever Torturing of them. Thus, even thus, the Enemies of God are to be dealt withal.
First. The Future State will be a Dismal State unto them, whose Death finds them in ill Terms with God. We have all possible Assurance, that after Death Men pass into a Future State. After Death a Judgment. A Redeemer, who by Rising from the Dead, asserted Himself to be the Eternal Son of God Incarnate, has assured us of it. The Future State, as it will be Inconceivably Happy to some, so it will be Unutterably Doleful to others. It will have such a Distribution as that;