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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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Secondly. In True Religion, the Religious Fear of […] against God, Restrains and Governs the Soul, and makes every Sinful Thing, a Fearful and an Hateful Thing unto the Soul. When the Fear of Sin Restrains and Governs the Mind exceedingly, then the Man Fears the Lord exceedingly. The Fear of Sin, is […] main Ingredient in the Fear of God. We read. Prov. VIII. 13. The fear of the Lord is to hate Evil. The Man who Fears God, is one who shuns Evil; one who has an Horror of SIN, as the worst Evil. Whatever such a Man takes to be a Sin, he is afraid of it; he would not be more afraid of a Fiery Furnace. A Temptation to Sin, is rejected by such a Man, with a vast Abhorrence of it.
Secondly. In True Religion, the Religious Fear of 〈…〉 against God, Restrains and Governs the Soul, and makes every Sinful Thing, a Fearful and an Hateful Thing unto the Soul. When the Fear of Sin Restrains and Governs the Mind exceedingly, then the Man Fears the Lord exceedingly. The Fear of Sin, is 〈…〉 main Ingredient in the Fear of God. We read. Prov. VIII. 13. The fear of the Lord is to hate Evil. The Man who Fears God, is one who shuns Evil; one who has an Horror of SIN, as the worst Evil. Whatever such a Man takes to be a Sin, he is afraid of it; he would not be more afraid of a Fiery Furnace. A Temptation to Sin, is rejected by such a Man, with a vast Abhorrence of it.
The Fear of Sin in True Religion, issues from an Awe, and an awful Sight which a Believer has of some Things that are not •een.
First; The Presence of GOD, is Awful to a Man that Fears Him. The Fear of God will make a Man