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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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OUR Text for ever forbids and rebukes Despair, would revive the Spirit of the Humble, and encourage them that are of a fearful Heart: It would lift up the weak hands, and strengthen the feeble knees; make the lame man to leap as an Hart, and the tongue of the dumb to sing.
OUR Text for ever forbids and rebukes Despair, wou'd revive the Spirit of the Humble, and encourage them that are of a fearful Heart: It wou'd lift up the weak hands, and strengthen the feeble knees; make the lame man to leap as an Hart, and the tongue of the dumb to sing.
V. AND lastly, Let the Use be in an earnest Exhortation unto Repentance. The Use which the Context makes for us: v. 31, 32. Cast away from you all your Transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed, and make you a new Heart and a new Spirit; for why will ye die, O House of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the Death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn your selves, and live ye.
I will only urge this by these two Considerations.