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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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Secondly. If People Dye without the fear of God, they Dye with a Vene••ious Nature still unchanged; and so they carry an Eternal Fuel for the Wrath of God into Eternity with them. We read, Rom. VIII. 7. The Carnal Mind is Enmity against God. Until the fear of God come into the Mind, the Sinner has a Carnal Mind that remains uncured in him. Now there is no prospect for the Cure of that Carnal Mind, when a Sinner is fallen under the Revenges of God, for his Enmity. No, He that is Unjust will still be Unjust; and he that is Filthy will be Filthy still. A perpetual Enmity to God is then riveted into the Mind of the Sinner; Never, never […] be gotten out. But what will be the ⟨p. 73⟩Consequence of this Enmity? It must needs make the Future State a very Dismal one. A perpetual Enmity to God, must needs involve the sinful Wretch in a perpetual Wretchedness. No Comfortable Visions of God can be allowed unto him, whom God counteth for His Enemy. Continual Rebukes from God, will be thundered upon him. Irregular Passions will keep his Enraged Soul in a perpetual Storm. His Desires will never be gratified, but be always creating of Troubles unto him. He will Hate God, and God will Vex him; and the Vengeance of Heaven will be perpetually Triumphing over him. This 'tis to Dye without the Fear of God: This must they look for, who Dye without Wisdom.
Secondly. If People Dye without the fear of God, they Dye with a Vene••ious Nature still unchanged; and so they carry an Eternal Fuel for the Wrath of God into Eternity with them. We read, Rom. VIII. 7. The Carnal Mind is Enmity against God. Until the fear of God come into the Mind, the Sinner has a Carnal Mind that remains uncured in him. Now there is no prospect for the Cure of that Carnal Mind, when a Sinner is fallen under the Revenges of God, for his Enmity. No, He that is Unjust will still be Unjust; and he that is Filthy will be Filthy still. A perpetual Enmity to God is then rivetted into the Mind of the Sinner; Never, never 〈…〉 be gotten out. But what will be the ⟨p. 73⟩