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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.
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.
Lastly. Beware, Oh! Beware of such Things, as will have a Tendency to harden your Hearts; Beware of all Heart-hardeners, and as you love your Souls avoid them.
Take the Warnings of God If you are in hazard of having your Hearts hardened by the Society of any Ungodly People; Shun them, Fly them, no longer Associate with them; Oh! Forsake the Foolish and live. Be warned therewithal, That all Sins against Knowledge are mighty hardeners of the Heart; The oftener you Repeat such known Sins, the more will you harden your Hearts. But no Sins have a more fatal Efficacy this way, than the Sins of Unchastity. Ah! Bewitching Sins, How do you take away the Heart of them that Wallow in you! What Infatuations do they bring upon those tha• venture on them! When People have once abandoned themselves unto the Sins of Unchastity, with what hardness of Heart will they sleight a• the Calls of Heaven, to Reform ⟨p. 37⟩their Evil-doings? With what Stupidity do they go on from one Vileness to another, and wax worse and worse? How Stupidly do they lay aside all Consideration of their own Interest; and become like Brute Beasts, and anon Perish in their own Corruption! God leaves them; Satan takes them; Nothing will bring them to any Good. When they are in Chains for their Wickedness, even then they will Repeat it, being held in the Chains of their Wickedness.
Take the Warnings of God If you are in hazard of having your Hearts hardened by the Society of any Ungodly People; Shun them, Fly them, no longer Assotiate with them; Oh! Forsake the Foolish and live. Be warned therewithal, That all Sins against Knowledge are mighty hardeners of the Heart; The oftner you Repeat such known Sins, the more will you harden your Hearts. But no Sins have a more fatal Efficacy this way, than the Sins of Unchastity. Ah! Bewitching Sins, How do you take away the Heart of them that Wallow in you! What Infatuations do they bring upon those tha• venture on them! When People have once abandoned themselves unto the Sins of Unchastity, with what hardness of Heart will they sleight a the Calls of Heaven, to Reform