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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 worst of Plagues; What it is, and How to shun it. BOSTON: 29 d.… › APPLICATION.
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That our dear People may take a due Course, to be delivered from the Mischiefs of an hardened Heart, let them now hearken to the Counsels of God.
First. Look up to GOD your SAVIOUR, for so great Salvation. Oh! Pray hard, Oh! Cry hard, unto the God of the Spirits of all Flesh, that He would save you from an hard Heart, and give you an Heart of Flesh. You have a sweet Promise of such a Blessing; Ezek. XXXVI. 26. A new Heart will I give unto you, and a new Spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the Stony Heart out of your Flesh, and will give you an Heart of Flesh. O plead so Gracious a Promise; and urge; O my God, Be it unto me according to thy Word; and let a soft Heart be given to me! It is not in Men or ⟨p. 34⟩Means, to Soften an hard Heart. As they said of Old, Who shall roll away the Stone from the D•o• of the Sepulchre? Even so, may we say, Who shall take away the Stone from the Heart, which keeps it Rotting in the Grave of a sinful Estrangement from God? Verily, None but GOD can do such a Thing. 'Tis a Creating Work. As he said, Create in me a Clean Heart, O God; so must we say, If ever I have a soft Heart, O God, it must be of thy Creating in me! He that can change a Stone, into a Child of Abraham, and none but He, can change an Heart of Stone, and rescue a Sinner from the Mischiefs of it. O Hard-hearted Sinner, look up to thy SAVIOUR. Be not so Stouthearted, as to be always f•r from this Righteousness▪
First. Look up to GOD your SAVIOUR, for so great Salvation. Oh! Pray hard, Oh! Cry hard, unto the God of the Spirits of all Flesh, that He would save you from an hard Heart, and give you an Heart of Flesh. You have a sweet Promise of such a Blessing; Ezek. XXXVI. 26