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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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TO Conclude, GOD had no pleasure in the Fall of Angels, nor of Man; He made them both Happy: He has pleasure in the Angels that stand, and in the Sinners whom His Grace ⟨p. 23⟩recovers. He chose not their Sin and Ruin, tho' He permitted their own profane Choice; and for it He cursed them in His Wrath and sore Displeasure.]
TO Conclude, GOD had no pleasure in the Fall of Angels, nor of Man; He made them both Happy: He has pleasure in the Angels that stand, and in the Sinners whom His Grace ⟨p. 23⟩recovers. He chose not their Sin and Ruin, tho' He permitted their own profane Choice; and for it He curs'd them in His Wrath and sore Displeasure.]
4. THE very Threatenings of the Law against Sin, the Threatening of Eternal Death in case of Impenitence in Sin, shows that GOD has no pleasure that the Sinner should die, but that he repent and live.
4. THE very Threatnings of the Law against Sin, the Threatning of Eternal Death in case of Impenitence in Sin, shows that GOD has no pleasure that the Sinner should die, but that he repent and live.
THE Intention of the Threatening is in Mercy to the Sinner, to prevent his Sin and Destruction: it is to deter and affright us from Sin, that so the woeful Effects thereof may not fall upon us. GOD shows us the Evil of Sin, and what a dangerous thing it is to commit it, that we may tremble at the Motion of it, and fly therefrom.