N01484:43
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Second PROPOSITION.
The Sinner of an hard Heart, is one who hardens his own Heart. He confirms his own Hardness by a presumptuous Resolution to go on […] Sin.
The Sinner of an hard Heart, is one who hardens his own Heart. He confirms his own Hardness by a presumptuous Resolution to go on 〈…〉 Sin.
There is a Natural hardness of Heart, which we are all Born withal. The Stone of the Heart is an Hereditary Distemper. But then, there is an Acquired hardness of Heart, which is when Men do Confirm and Augment and Increase their hardness, by going on to Sin with an high […] against the Lord.
There is a Natural hardness of Heart, which we are all Born withal. The Stone of the Heart is an Hereditary Distemper. But then, there is an Acquired hardness of Heart, which is when Men do Confirm and Augment and Increase their hardness, by going on to Sin with an high 〈…〉 against the Lord.