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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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I will only urge this by these two Considerations.
1. THE Goodness of GOD should lead you to Repentance. GOD seeks your Repentance from the most tender Compassion to thy poor Soul. O let ⟨p. 37⟩it soften thy hard Heart: do not harden it against the Mercies of GOD: let Divine Goodness win and melt it: let thy Saviour's love to thy Soul, constrain and draw forth thy Soul unto Him again Let the Tears and Blood of thy Saviour affect thee. It is a dreadful Case to perish in contempt and in spite of Infinite Mercy it self, labouring to hinder thy Ruin.
1. THE Goodness of GOD shou'd lead you to Repentance. GOD seeks your Repentance from the most tender Compassion to thy poor Soul. O let ⟨p. 37⟩it soften thy hard Heart: do not harden it against the Mercies of GOD: let Divine Goodness win and melt it: let thy Saviour's love to thy Soul, constrain and draw forth thy Soul unto Him again Let the Tears and Blood of thy Saviour affect thee. It is a dreadful Case to perish in contempt and in spite of Infinite Mercy it self, labouring to hinder thy Ruine.
2. IF the Goodness of GOD cannot lead thee to Repentance, then GOD will have pleasure in they Eternal Damnation. He would not now have you die; it would please Him to see you repent and live; but if you despise and slight this His Goodness, and continue to do so, and die Impenitent, the Wrath and Vengeance of GOD will then take place, and have its Satisfaction. He that made you will not have Mercy on you, and He that formed you will show you no Favour.