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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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WHEREFORE Believe me, Margaret; (or rather Believe the true and Merciful GOD, who has said it in His Word, and revealed so much of His own Merciful Nature to thee that thou mayest believe it; and has given His own Son to die for the chief of Sinners, and has chosen many such unto Eternal Salvation by him) Believe me I say, in what I therefore speak to you from the Blessed GOD; If you do at last die in your Sins and perish for ever […] is […] •our […] have ⟨p. 42⟩pleasure in your own Death and Eternal Destruction, and none else but the Devil who has Instigated you to commit the deadly Sins which you have done; none but that Enemy of your Soul will be pleased and gratified in your final perishing.
WHEREFORE Believe me, Margaret; (or rather Believe the true and Merciful GOD, who has said it in His Word, and revealed so much of His own Merciful Nature to thee that thou mayest believe it; and has given His own Son to die for the chief of Sinners, and has chosen many such unto Eternal Salvation by him) Believe me I say, in what I therefore speak to you from the Blessed GOD; If you do at last die in your Sins and perish for ever 〈…〉 is 〈…〉 •our 〈…〉 have ⟨p. 42⟩pleasure in your own Death and Eternal Destruction, and none else but the Devil who has Instigated you to commit the deadly Sins which you have done; none but that Enemy of your Soul will be pleas'd and gratified in your final perishing.
THY Damnation will be owing at last to thy self, thy own Choice thy own Wilfulness. You won't •• pent and be saved. You will not go to Christ that you may have Life. Turn you, turn you, why will you die?