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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
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 DOCTRINE which I am now to give you, is;
As the RELIGION which bring• […] SALVATION, is to FEAR GOD; so 'tis […] Grievous Thing for People in a Suffering Time, and a yet more ⟨p. 48⟩Dreadful Thing for People in a Dying Hour, to be without the FEAR OF GOD.
As the RELIGION which bring• 〈…〉 SALVATION, is to FEAR GOD; so 'tis 〈…〉 Grievous Thing for People in a Suffering Time, and a yet more ⟨p. 48⟩Dreadful Thing for People in a Dying Hour, to be without the FEAR OF GOD.
I. The first observable Thing that now occurs unto us, is; That Real, Vital, Saving RELIGION does consist in the Fear of God; A Religious Fear of the Glorious God.