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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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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.
2. IF the Goodness of GOD cannot lead thee to Repentance, then GOD will have pleasure in they Eternal Damnation. He wou'd not now have you die; it wou'd 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.
TURN or die. O might the Word fasten on the foolish Heart of every ⟨p. 38⟩one that goeth on still in his Trespasses. Think not at last of finding Mercy, nor of dying in Peace, tho' you for the present go on in Sin: the Lord will not spare you, but the Anger of the Lord and His Jealousy will smo•k against that Man, and all the Curses of the Law shall lye upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his Name from under Heaven. Jer. 13. 14. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have Mercy.
FOR our Text and Doctrine we have the Oath of GOD; As I live saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure that the Sinner should die: but have we not His Oath too for the Impenitent Sinners Destruction?