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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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THE greatest Compassion and Tenderness to thee at present is, to awaken in thee, if it might be possible, a sense of the Terrors of GOD, and of His Wrath impending over thee, unless you find Grace from Him to make ⟨p. 46⟩your Escape therefrom by true Repentance and Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. If your Wounds be not Opened they will never be Cleansed, and if they be not cleansed they can never heal, but will Gangrene and Rot.
THE greatest Compassion and Tenderness to thee at present is, to awaken in thee, if it might be possible, a sense of the Terrors of GOD, and of His Wrath impending over thee, unless you find Grace from Him to make ⟨p. 46⟩your Escape therefrom by true Repentance and Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. If your Wounds be not Open'd they will never be Cleans'd, and if they be not cleans'd they can never heal, but will Gangreen and Rot.
WHEREFORE, In the Name of GOD I beseech you to confess your Sins and repent; even all the Sins of your whole Life, but especially those which have brought you to this tragic End and accursed Death. And Fear, O fear and tremble lest by Impenitence and hardness of Heart you fall and sink under the Wrath and Curse of GOD in tho Eternal World which is to come; […] that second and more dreadful Execution of a poor Soul which is after •eath; for what is the hanging of a dying Body on a Gibbet to the casting of an Immortal Soul into the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimstone which is the second Death.
WHEREFORE, In the Name of GOD I beseech you to confess your Sins and repent; even all the Sins of your whole Life, but especially those which have bro't you to this tragic End and accursed Death. And Fear, O fear and tremble lest by Impenitence and hardness of Heart you fall and sink under the Wrath and Curse of GOD in tho Eternal World which is to come; 〈…〉 that second and more dreadful Execution of a poor Soul which is after eath; for what is the hanging of a dying Body on a Gibbet to the casting of an Immortal Soul into the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimstone which is the second Death.