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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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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, ⟨p. 16⟩is to be relied upon. Well▪ We will now hear what our Blessed JESUS has declared unto us; and not be so Criminally unreasonable as to ask for any further Demonstration. Speak, O Glorious LORD, and O thou True Witness, who art the Deliverer of Souls; we will hear all that thou shalt speak unto us. Lord, We will Believe; Help thou our Unbelief!
The Resurrection of our Blessed JESUS from the Dead, has had such Infallible Proofs, that nothing but some Satanick Energy can make any Man such a Bruit, 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, ⟨p. 16⟩is to be relied upon. Well▪ We will now hear what our Blessed JESUS has declared unto us; and not be so Criminally unreasonable as to ask for any further Demonstration. Speak, O Glorious LORD, and O thou True Witness, who art the Deliverer of Souls; we will hear all that thou shalt speak unto us. Lord, We will Believe; Help thou our Unbelief!
First. Our SAVIOUR has assured us of this; The SOUL of Man dies not, when his Body dies. There are many Considerations, which render it more than probable, That the Soul of Man is an Immortal Spirit. The Appetites for Immortality, the Presages of Immortality, by GOD implanted in the Soul, cannot be made by Him in Vain. The Soul is not in its Constitution a perishable substance. 'Tis evidently an Intellectual Being, of such a Constitution as to have no Seeds of Corruption in it. The Soul so Differs from the Body, as to make us Think (and this very Thing, To Think, is more than