N01484:193
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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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.
THE Intention of the Threatning is in Mercy to the Sinner, to prevent his Sin and Destruction: it is to deter and affright us from Sin, that so the woful 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.
CAN we think that He who warns us of our Danger desires that it should befall us? No, far from it: It were the most cross and perverse Imputation that can be; most absurd, and also most ungrateful and base.
CAN we think that He who warns us of our Danger desires that it should befall us? No, far from it: It were the most cross and perverse Imputation that can be; most absurd, and also most ungrateful and bafe.
THE Threatening does not make the Effect of Sin to be what it is: No; that had been the same without the Publication of the Curse. That the Wicked shall die is founded in the very Nature of Sin; the Holiness and Essential Dominion of GOD make that Necessary.
THE Threatning does not make the Effect of Sin to be what it is: No; that had been the same without the Publication of the Curse. That the Wicked shall die is founded in the very Nature of Sin; the Holiness and Essential Dominion of GOD make that Necessary.