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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
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.
Friend, when thou hast been doing an Ill Thing, has not something within thee, told thee, A Just GOD will one day punish thee for this! Oh! Do not slight such unfailing, such amazing presages; Fools! Do not any more make a mock of Sin, as you use to do!
Friend, when thou hast been doing an Ill Thing, has not something within thee, told thee, A Just GOD will one day punish thee for this! Oh! Do not slight such unfailing, such amazing praesages; Fools! Do not any more make a mock of Sin, as you use to do!
Secondly. The Thing is yet more clearly and fully discovered, in the Book that is given by Inspiration of GOD. Our BIBLE has the Incontestable marks of such a Book. Now that Sin will be punished by the Justice of GOD in Destructive Miseries upon the Sinner; This is that unto which our Bible does abundantly Testify. Of our Bible we may say, Rom. I. 18. Here The wrath of GOD is Revealed from Heaven against all Ungodliness and Unrighteousness of Men. The Book of GOD is Expanded like the Firmament of Heaven over the ⟨p. 11⟩Church of GOD. In this Firmament the GOD of Glory thunders; That Powerful Voice of GOD is ever now and then, heard Thundering there; The Justice of GOD will not let Sin go unpunished! That Thundering Voice of Justice is here uttered from the Mouth of GOD, Woe to the Wicked, it shall go ill with him, for the Reward of his hands shall be given him; That Thundering Voice▪ GOD will render Tribulation & Wrath, Indignation and Anguish, upon every Soul of Man which doeth Evil. In this Book, how often do we find Things of such an Aspect as this! I will punish you according to the Fruit of your Doings, saith the Lord. How often is the Anger of a Glorious GOD against Sin here told unto us! Yea, with Terms that carry the highest Indignation in them! We must not imagine any Passion in the Infinite GOD, like what there is in Angry Men! But such Expressions are used, as Philo says well, For the Instruction of the Multitude. ⟨p. 12⟩