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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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THE Wicked Jews had […] a strange Opinion of the Blessed […] ⟨p. 4⟩as if he took all Advantages against 'em, to Punish 'em; and particularly that they suffered for their Fathers Sins It was become a kind of Proverb among 'em, tho' it carried a plain Reproach and Impeachment of the Divine Judgments; that the Fathers had eaten four Grapes, and the Children Teeth were set on Edge. The Objection was Foolish as well as Profane; for it is no ways Unjust in GOD to inflict Temporal Evils upon the Children for their Parents Sins: For a great many present Punishments of the Sins of Parents, do by a natural and unavoidable Tendency involve their Posterity in Calamities and Miseries.
THE Wicked Jews had 〈…〉 a strange Opinion of the Blessed 〈…〉 ⟨p. 4⟩as if he took all Advantages against 'em, to Punish 'em; and particularly that they suffered for their Fathers Sins It was become a kind of Proverb among 'em, tho' it carry'd a plain Reproach and Impeachment of the Divine Judgments; that the Fathers had eaten four Grapes, and the Children• Teeth were set on Edge. The Objection was Foolish as well as Profane; for it is no ways Unjust in GOD to inflict Temporal Evils upon the Children for their Parents Sins: For a great many present Punishments of the Sins of Parents, do by a natural and unavoidable Tendency involve their Posterity in Calamities and Miseries.
IN the Chapter GOD asserts in General His own Sovereignty and Justice that all Souls are His, and that the Soul that Sins shall die. But more especially there are four things pretty much insisted on; as Mr. Henry divides the Chapter: That it shall […] ill with the wicked Man, tho' he ha• a good Father; that it shall •e we ⟨p. 5⟩