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The valley of Hinnom. The terrors of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping…The valley of Hinnom. The terrours of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping…
The valley of Hinnom. The terrors of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping the terrible miseries of the punishments on the wicked there, declared. In a sermon preached in the hearing, and at the request, of a man under a sentence of death for a murder; just before the execution of the sentence; and upon a text by himself assigned for the sermon to insist upon. At Boston, 13.d. IV.m. 1717, : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]The valley of Hinnom. The terrours of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping the terrible miseries of the punishments on the wicked there, declared. In a sermon preached in the hearing, and at the request, of a man under a sentence of death for a murder; just before the execution of the sentence; and upon a text by himself assigned for the sermon to insist upon. At Boston, 13.d. IV.m. 1717, : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by J. Allen for Robert Starke, 1717
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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.
Sirs, You are to stand, before a DOCTRINE provided by a Dying Man for your Entertainment, as the People did of old before the flaming Mountain, upon which there were Thunders and Lightnings, and the Voice of a Trumpet, Exceeding Loud, So that all the People that were in the Camp, trembled at it.
Syrs, You are to stand, before a DOCTRINE provided by a Dying Man for your Entertainment, as the People did of old before the flaming Mountain, upon which there were Thunders and Lightnings, and the Voice of a Trumpet, Exceeding Loud, So that all the People that were in the Camp, trembled at it.
There are first of all some very awful Truths of the Gospel, which must be known, and be spoken in the Light, and set in a true Light before you.
I. It is most certain, That SIN must be Punished in Destructive Miseries upon the Sinner; a Destruction proceeding from the Just Revenges of GOD The Holy GOD has given us a Law, which requires our Homage unto Him, and our Kindness unto our Neighbour. And a Just Law it is! While the great GOD is what He is, and His Creature Man, is what He is, there will be such Things due, as His Law has thus required. We must for ever own, Psal. CXIX. 142. Thy Righteousness is an everlasting Righteousness, and thy Law is the Truth. 'Tis a Law Originally written on the Tables of our Hearts; and upon the Defacing of those Writings in our Fall from GOD, we have it more fully Explained in the Sacred Scriptures which the Prophetic Spirit has provided for us. In this Law there is a Punishment assigned for the Transgression of it. Indeed, it were not a Law, if it were not armed with a Penalty. And still there is Justice ⟨p. 6⟩