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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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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?
TRUE, To His own Honour and Glory, the Ends of His Holiness Wisdom and Justice, and the common Good of all His Creation, it is meet & good that a Million of Creatures be thrown away in a day into an Eternal Perdition: for what are these unto the Honour and Government of GOD? and to His Glory from Infinite Millions of Holy and better Creatures, and their joint-happiness? 'Tis but as an Achan sacrificed out of ⟨p. 21⟩the Congregation to the Justice of Heaven, and for the Preservation of the Whole! But otherwise, the GOD who made us, the Rock that formed us, certainly bears a very gracious Inclination to us and our happiness: the Misery of His Creatures can in it self alone be no pleasure to Him.