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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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First. The Holy GOD in His Righteous Providence, withdraws His Grace from the Sinner that hardens his own Heart, and then, O Sinner what an Horrid hardness of Hear• will soon seize upon thee! GOD hardens the Heart of such a Sinner not, Infundendo Malit•••; […] but Non Infundendo Gratiam; not by Infusing of Sin, but by withholding o• Grace. 'Tis enough, that it shall be said, as in Deut. XXIX. 4. The Lord hath not given you an Heart GOD ⟨p. 23⟩never owed His Grace unto a Reprobate Sinner: And the Sinner in hardening his own Heart, Sinfully sleights that Grace. How Justly, how Justly, and Unexceptionably, does the Holy GOD, now deny His Grace unto the Sinner, and leave the Sinner to be filled with his own ways! But Oh! •he wondrous hardness of Heart, which unavoidably follows upon this Dereliction of God! When the Sun withdraws, all Things Harden apace. Men by hardening their own Hearts, •o Grieve the good Spirit of God: The Grieved Spirit hereupon withdraws from them: When He withdraws, their Hearts will harden, how Heinously, how Hideously!
First. The Holy GOD in His Righteous Providence, withdraws His Grace from the Sinner that hardens his own Heart, and then, O Sinner what an Horrid hardness of Hear• will soon seize upon thee! GOD hardens the Heart of such a Sinner not, Infundendo Malit•••; 〈…〉 but Non Infundendo Gratiam; not by Infusing of Sin, but by withholding o• Grace. 'Tis enough, that it shall be said, as in Deut. XXIX. 4. The Lord hath not given you an Heart GOD ⟨p. 23⟩never ow'd His Grace unto a Reprobate Sinner: And the Sinner in hardening his own Heart, Sinfully sleights that Grace. How Justly, how Justly, and Unexceptionably, does the Holy GOD, now deny His Grace unto the Sinner, and leave the Sinner to be filled with his own ways! But Oh! he wondrous hardness of Heart, which unavoidably follows upon this Dereliction of God! When the Sun withdraws, all Things Harden apace. Men by hardening their own Hearts, o Grieve the good Spirit of God: The Grieved Spirit hereupon withdraws from them: When He withdraws, their Hearts will harden, how Heinously, how Hideously!