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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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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 ⟨p. 17⟩Body can do!) that it Survives after the Death of the Body. Being Spirit and not Flesh, therefore they shall not fail together. But above all, there is this to put the point beyond all Probability. The Glorious LORD, who is the Creator and Redeemer of our Soul, has positively told us, They which kill the Body are not able to kill the Soul. No profane shufflings can Evade the force of this Proof! Man, Thy Soul, is a Candle of the Lord. Thy SAVIOUR who has placed this Lamp in the Earthen Vessel, has affirmed unto thee, that it is not Extinguished by the Breaking of the Earthen Vessel. No, He will keep it in its Existence to Eternal Ages. The Spring in my Watch, will not be stripped of its Elasticity, and cease to be a Spring, when it shall be taken out of the Machine whereof it now causes the various Motions. Nor the Soul when taken out of the Body.
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 Praesages 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 ⟨p. 17⟩Body can do!) that it Survives after the Death of the Body. Being Spirit and not Flesh, therefore they shall not fail together. But above all, there is this to put the point beyond all Probability. The Glorious LORD, who is the Creator and Redeemer of our Soul, has positively told us, They which kill the Body are not able to kill the Soul. No profane shufflings can Evade the force of this Proof! Man, Thy Soul, is a Candle of the Lord. Thy SAVIOUR who has placed this Lamp in the Earthen Vessel, has affirmed unto thee, that it is not Extinguished by the Breaking of the Earthen Vessel. No, He will keep it in its Existance to Eternal Ages. The Spring in my Watch, will not be stript of its Elasticity, and cease to be a Spring, when it shall be taken out of the Machine whereof it now causes the various Motions. Nor the Soul when taken out of the Body.