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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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5. GOD's sending His own Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to die for us, is the highest Argument of all that He has no pleasure that the Sinner should die. No greater Testimony could GOD give of His Desire of our Salvation. And therefore has He no pleasure that the Sinner should die, because His Soul has the utmost Complacency and fullest Satisfaction in the Death of Christ; by whom we have received the Atonement.
5. GOD's sending His own Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to die for us, is the highest Argument of all that He has no pleasure that the Sinner should die. No greater Testimony could GOD give of His Desire of our Salvation. And therefore has He no pleasure that the Sinner shou'd die, because His Soul has the utmost Complacency and fullest Satisfaction in the Death of Christ; by whom we have received the Attonement.
THE express End of the Incarnation and Sufferings of the Son of GOD was to save Souls from Death. And what a Price was this for a Soul! now was the Heart of GOD set upon saving Sinners? We see HIM of whom are all things, and by whom […] all things, sent upon the Work of ⟨p. 28⟩our Redemption from Sin and Death. What a Desire then had GOD thereof?
THE express End of the Incarnation and Sufferings of the Son of GOD was to save Souls from Death. And what a Price was this for a Soul! now was the Heart of GOD set upon saving Sinners? We see HIM of whom are all things, and by whom 〈…〉 all things, sent upon the Work of ⟨p. 28⟩our Redemption from Sin and Death. What a Desire then had GOD thereof?