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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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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.
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 joynt-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.
SEE the Context: v. 4. Behold, all Souls are mine; As the Soul of the Father, so also the Soul of the Son is mine; the Soul that sinneth it shall die. God, the Father of Spirits, is a lover of Souls; He thoroughly knows the Excellency and price of them; and what the loss and what the Misery of His Immortal Workmanship is; and it can't be pleasing to Him to behold it.
SEE the Context: v. 4. Behold, all Souls are mine; As the Soul of the Father, so also the Soul of the Son is mine; the Soul that sinneth it shall die. God, the Father of Spirits, is a lover of Souls; He thro'ly knows the Excellency and price of them; and what the loss and what the Misery of His Immortal Workmanship is; and it can't be pleasing to Him to behold it.