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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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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⟩with the good Man, tho' he had a wicked Father; that it shall be well with Penitents, tho' they began never so ill; and that it shall be ill with Apostates, tho' they began never so well.
IN the Chapter GOD asserts in General His own Soveraignty 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⟩with the good Man, tho' he had a wicked Father; that it shall be well with Penitents, tho' they began never so ill; and that it shall be ill with Apostates, tho' they began never so well.
UNDER the Third of these Heads our Text falls; Have I any Pleasure at all that the Wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways and live?
LET us attentively Consider, Who it is that speaks, and What is said. Saith the Lord GOD: He it is that speaketh from Heaven, and see that you refuse Him not. What Attention, Reverence, Fear and Faith do we owe nto His Words? whether of Grace or of His Anger and Wrath.