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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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They are such Important, but so very Terrible, Things which are now to be published among you, That you may well demand some unquestionable, some ungainsayable, Demonstrations of them. Now, I call to mind a saying, Luk. XVI. 31. If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one Rose from the Dead. We have had coming to us from the Dead, ⟨p. 15⟩such Things among our selves, that a Man must render himself unworthy of a Conversation among Men, who shall deny the matters of Fact, and the plain Consequences of them, That there is a World of Evil Spirits; and, therefore also, a World of good Ones. But I wave these Proofs; Nor indeed will Wicked People hear them. I will carry you to one who is Greater than Moses and the Prophets; even Him, who was by Moses and the Prophets commended unto us; One also who is Risen from the Dead.
They are such Important, but so very Terrible, Things which are now to be published among you, That you may well demand some unquestionable, some ungainsayable, Demonstrations of them. Now, I call to mind a saying, Luk. XVI. 31. If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be perswaded, though one Rose from the Dead. We have had coming to us from the Dead, ⟨p. 15⟩such Things among our selves, that a Man must render himself unworthy of a Conversation among Men, who shall deny the matters of Fact, and the plain Consequences of them, That there is a World of Evil Spirits; and, therefore also, a World of good Ones. But I wave these Proofs; Nor indeed will Wicked People hear them. I will carry you to one who is Greater than Moses and the Prophets; even Him, who was by Moses and the Prophets commended unto us; One also who is Risen from the Dead.
The Resurrection of our Blessed JESUS from the Dead, has had such Infallible Proofs, that nothing but some Satanic Energy can make any Man such a Brute, as to admit any Doubt upon it. Now the Resurrection of our Blessed JESUS from the Dead, is a Victorious Demonstration, That He is the SON of GOD, and the CHRIST, the Saviour of the World, and that whatever He has Declared in His Gospel,