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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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WE are all the Work of His Hands: One GOD created us. Now GOD has implanted in us, a natural and necessary, but most free chosen and delightful Regard to our own; whether our own, Works, or our Offspring. We desire to see those that come of us Happy; in all their Afflictions we deeply share and are afflicted; it is very painful to us to see them suffer; On the other hand, How does it please us to see them Happy? what Content have we in their doing and faring well? how do we Rejoice in their Prosperity? And has not GOD a higher and superior Regard, think we, to all His Works?
DO we not esteem it a proper suitable and wi•e Inclination in Us? most Beneficial and most Just? Certainly ⟨p. 20⟩it is. But far more Necessary is the High Creator, the Father and Preserver of all things! If His tender Mercies were not over all His Works, what would become of them?
WHAT wise Man has pleasure in the Destruction of his own Work? when he has done it with any Degree of Art, brought it to some great Perfection, and to an equal Usefulness and Service? Does he not cherish it and tender it? And are not the Glorious and perfect Works of GOD dearer to Him, and more precious in His Sight?
WHAT wise Man has pleasure in the Destruction of his own Work? when he has done it with any Degree of Art, bro't it to some great Perfection, and to an equal Usefulness and Service? Does he not cherish it and tender it? And are not the Glorious and perfect Works of GOD dearer to Him, and more precious in His Sight?