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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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[THEREFORE He at first Created Man on Earth, as He did the Angels in Heaven in a state of Holiness and Happiness. It was His pleasure that we should have lived happy for ever. He made all things Good, and formed Man in His own Image. He planted the Tree of Life, the Sacrament of Immortality, in the ⟨p. 22⟩midst of Paradise; He forbade and warned Man of one baneful Tree set there to try and prove his Obedience and Gratitude to his Creator. Death and Misery was thus forbidden in the Causes of it; Life and Happiness were before given and the careful Preservation of them was thus required. It was with great Displeasure that He saw Man naked and ruined. What is it that you have done? said He—and drove them out of Paradise into Labours and Sorrows, in a World which their Sin had blasted. The Creators Rest was glorious, when He saw all things that He had made, and behold they were very Good and Happy; and this would have been the Rest of His Soul for ever to have seen His Creatures ever have remained so under His Blessing.
[THEREFORE He at first Created Man on Earth, as He did the Angels in Heaven in a state of Holiness and Happiness. It was His pleasure that we should have liv'd happy for ever. He made all things Good, and formed Man in His own Image. He planted the Tree of Life, the Sacrament of Immortality, in the ⟨p. 22⟩midst of Paradice; He forbad and warn'd Man of one baneful Tree set there to try and prove his Obedience and Gratitude to his Creator. Death and Misery was thus forbidden in the Causes of it; Life and Happiness were before given and the careful Preservation of them was thus requir'd. It was with great Displeasure that He saw Man naked and ruined. What is it that you have done? said He—and drove them out of Paradice into Labours and Sorrows, in a World which their Sin had blasted. The Creators Rest was glorious, when He saw all things that He had made, and behold they were very Good and Happy; and this wou'd have been the Rest of His Soul for ever to have seen His Creatures ever have remain'd so under His Blessing.