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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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Thirdly. A Sinner that hardens his own Heart, is by the Righteous Providence of the Holy GOD, left in the Hand of Satan; And Oh! what ⟨p. 26⟩a Satanic Hardness will the Heart of such a Sinner be soon congealed into! Of Impious ones, we read, 2 Cor. IV. 4. The God of this World has Blinded their Minds. 'Tis the same, who hardens their Hearts. An Ahab will be hardened with a Vengeance when the Lying Spirit shall have a Permission for the Seducing of him. An hardened Heart is a seared Heart. But it is the Devil, that brings from Hell, those Hot Irons, by which the Heart of a Sinner comes to be so Hardened and Seared. Anatomical Observations have told us, That the Stone whereof some have died, being opened, a Snake has been found in it. When the Heart of a Sinner is hardened, there is the Old Serpent in the Stone, to make it so. A Sinner by hardening his own Heart, Invites the Devil to take Possession of it. What the Sinner Invites, that the Holy GOD Permits. Yea, There is a Sentence now passed from the spotless Throne, That it shall be so But, Oh! What an hard Heart will ⟨p. 27⟩that be, which has the Devil filling of it! Forlorn Ananias, If Satan fill thy Heart, what, what wilt thou come to?
Thirdly. A Sinner that hardens his own Heart, is by the Righteous Providence of the Holy GOD, left in the Hand of Satan; And Oh! what ⟨p. 26⟩a Satanic Hardness will the Heart of such a Sinner be soon congeled into! Of Impious ones, we read, 2 Cor. IV. 4. The God of this World has Blinded their Minds. 'Tis the same, who hardens their Hearts. An Ahab will be hardened with a Vengeance when the Lying Spirit shall have a Permission for the Seducing of him. An hardened Heart is a seared Heart. But it is the Divel, that brings from Hell, those Hot Irons, by which the Heart of a Sinner comes to be so Hardened and Seared. Anatomical Observations have told us, That the Stone whereof some have died, being opened, a Snake has been found in it. When the Heart of a Sinner is hardened, there is the Old Serpent in the Stone, to make it so. A Sinner by hardening his own Heart, Invites the Divel to take Possession of it. What the Sinner Invites, that the Holy GOD Permits. Yea, There is a Sentence now passed from the spotless Throne, That it shall be so But, Oh! What an hard Heart will