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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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4. THY Damnation will be owing to thy self at last, thy own wilful Choice of Death in the Causes of it. Thou art a Self-destroyer, and canst have no Excuse, nor lay the Blame of thy Eternal Misery on any one but thy self. Thou hast a Devil and art Mad, he goeth about to kill thee. With the furious Demoniac thou stabbest thy self. You act against the deepest Principle in Nature, even Self-preservation. A Devil let loose upon you could not do you more hurt than you do to your self. False, pitiless, cruel and base to your self. And such Reflections will be your exquisite and eternal Torment.
IV. ON the other hand, The Doctrine is full of Comfort and Encouragement to every poor and contrite Spirit, that trembleth at GOD's Word, ⟨p. 35⟩feels the plague of its own Heart, and fears the Wrath of GOD; that is mourning in the Conscience of Sin, and in the Apprehension of the Curse due thereto.
IS Sin your Burden, GOD your Fear, Grace your Desire? and do you doubt whether GOD will delight to show thee Mercy? let me rebuke thy Unbelief, and warn thee of the Wickedness thereof.
IS Sin your Burden, GOD your Fear, Grace your Desire? and do you doubt whether GOD will delight to shew thee Mercy? let me rebuke thy Unbelief, and warn thee of the Wickedness thereof.