A sorrowful spectacle. In two sermons, occasioned by a just sentence of death, on…

Name: A sorrowful spectacle. In two sermons, occasioned by a just sentence of death, on…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston: printed by T. Fleet & T. Crump for Samuel Gerrish, 1715

[2], vii, [1], 3-92, [2], 47, [1] p. ; 14 cm. (12mo) · 24k words · Evans 1764

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The Divine Compassions Declar'd and Magnified, To Engage and Encour…: The Divine Compassions Declar'd and Magnified, To Engage and Encourage the greatest Sin…

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:176p. 14–15

SO far I have laboured to State and Limit the Truth before us; to clear and deliver it from those Cavils and Objections that may rise against it in our Minds. Tho' GOD ⟨p. 15⟩has no Pleasure that the Wicked should die, yet it is infinitely Pleasurable to Him to hate Sin, to glorify His Justice, and to perform His Truth and Threatenings against Sin; and the Miseries of them that perish are no grief or offence of Heart unto Him.

SO far I have labour'd to State and Limit the Truth before us; to clear and deliver it from those Cavils and Objections that may rise against it in our Minds. Tho' GOD ⟨p. 15⟩has no Pleasure that the Wicked should die, yet it is infinitely Pleasurable to Him to hate Sin, to glorify His Justice, and to perform His Truth and Threatnings against Sin; and the Miseries of them that perish are no grief or offence of Heart unto Him.

:177p. 15

II. I now pass unto the Second Thing propounded, which is; To illustrate, prove, and exemplify the Doctrine by an Induction of diverse Instances: all which shall confirm and show that GOD has given us abundant Assurances that He has no Pleasure in the Death of Sinners, but in their Repentance.

II. I now pass unto the Second Thing propounded, which is; To illustrate, prove, and exemplify the Doctrine by an Induction of diverse Instances: all which shall confirm and shew that GOD has given us abundant Assurances that He has no Pleasure in the Death of Sinners, but in their Repentance.

:178p. 15–17¶1

1. AND as it is fit, I will begin, first with the positive Affirmation hereof in the Word of GOD. And this is instead of a thousand other Proofs, if GOD had said it: His Truth endureth ro out all Generations. Yea the GOD of Truth has passed it into an Oath, which is the highest Confirmation and n End of all Strife or Dispute; It shows the Immutability of His Counsel,

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