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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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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?
THIS Divine and Glorious Person submitted for this End to the deepest Humiliation and Abasement, to bitter Sorrows and to an accursed Death. He was made Sin and a Curse to deliver us from the same. He paid in Ransom for our Souls His own Life, His precious Blood. Not only did the Son of GOD become Man, but a Sacrifice to satisfy the Justice of GOD for Man's Sin. And therefore did His Father love him, because He laid down His Life for us. What pleasure then has He in the Life and Salvation of poor Sinners?
WHY else has He provided for it at such an Expense of Grace? and why is the Call, the Offer, Tender and Promise of Life through' Him so earnestly urged on us? Had GOD desired our Death He might have left us in our Blood, and never have said unto us, Live. But we see that He had pleasure in the Death of His ⟨p. 29⟩