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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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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⟩own Son, rather than we should die in our Sins. 1 Jo. 4. 9. In this was manifest the Love of GOD, because He sent His Only-begotten Son that we might live through' Him.
WHY else has He provided for it at such an Expence of Grace? and why is the Call, the Offer, Tender and Promise of Life thro' 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⟩own Son, rather than we should die in our Sins. 1 Jo. 4. 9. In this was manifest the Love of GOD, because He sent His Only-begotten Son that we might live thro' Him.
6. AND lastly. It may be argued from Stories of Scripture Penitents, that the Holy GOD has no pleasure that the Sinner should die, but rather that he repent and live. Where is the Instance of a Penitent whom GOD has not readily and with pleasure received and pardoned? When David had so heinously sinned, yet did he no sooner confess, but GOD remitted. When Peter had so heinously denied Christ, but thereupon had wept bitterly before GOD, his Sin was never once mentioned against him by his Saviour. When Manasseh humbled himself greatly before GOD, the Lord GOD of his Father, tho' he had before exceeded in wicked Transgressions, yet was the Lord entreated at his Tears.
6. AND lastly. It may be argued from Stories of Scripture Penitents, that the Holy GOD has no pleasure that the Sinner should die, but rather that he repent and live. Where is the Instance of a Penitent whom GOD has not readily and with pleasure receiv'd and pardoned? When David had so hainously sinned, yet did he no sooner confess, but GOD remitted. When Peter had so hainously denied Christ, but thereupon had wept bitterly before GOD, his Sin was never once mentioned against him by his Saviour. When Manasseh humbled himself greatly before GOD, the Lord GOD of his Father, tho' he had before exceeded in wicked Transgressions, yet was the Lord entreated at his Tears.