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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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III. OUR Doctrine brings Conviction to the Wicked, the Ungodly and Impenitent, and on diverse Accounts do they stand Condemned by it.
1. AS having pleasure in their own Death. GOD says to them, Why will you die? This He Charges upon you, and justly Complains of it. He says, You hate your own Soul, you love Death. O how Unnatural and worse than Brutish is this? A natural brute Beast flies from Death, and from everything ⟨p. 33⟩that hurts its Life; but mad as Men are, they Murder their own Souls, void equally of pity and of fear.
2. OUR Doctrine reproves and condemns all them that have pleasure in the Sins of others: whether Tempting them to Sin, Approving them, Indulging them in it, or Rejoicing at it and Insulting over them. The latter is as barbarous, as the former treacherous; but all Impious. Rom. 1. 32. Who knowing the Judgment of GOD, that they who do such things are worthy of Death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Rom. 14. 15. Destroy not him—for whom Christ died.
2. OUR Doctrine reproves and condemns all them thao have pleasure in the Sins of others: whether Tempting them to Sin, Approving them, Indulging them in it, or Rejoicing at it and Insulting over them. The latter is as barbarous, as the former treacherous; but all Impious. Rom. 1. 32. Who knowing the Judgment of GOD, that they who do such things are worthy of Death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.