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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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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.
THO' your Sins are many, great and heinous; tho' they may have been long persisted in and often repeated; yet GOD seeks thy Repentance, and desires you would turn and live: He would glorify His renewing Grace, and His pardoning Mercy upon thee. Have you considered and turned? then all your Transgressions shall not be mentioned against you; you shall surely live, you shall not die.
THO' your Sins are many, great and hainous; tho' they may have been long persisted in and often repeated; yet GOD seeks thy Repentance, and desires you wou'd turn and live: He would glorify His renewing Grace, and His pardoning Mercy upon thee. Have you considered and turned? then all your Transgressions shall not be mentioned against you; you shall surely live, you shall not die.
TRUE, You deserve Death for past Sins, and GOD might have struck you dead in 'em, if He had any pleasure in your Death: but He ⟨p. 36⟩spares you, and continues the Offers of Grace, Pardon and Life to you.