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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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III. Twice has the Trumpet sounded; The sound must wax Louder and Louder. Behold, the Third Proclamation of Woe unto the Wicked, now cometh quickly! You are to be now informed, That no Death can be so Formidable as the Punishment of Sin in Destructive Miseries upon the Soul as well as the Body of the Sinner, in the HELL that is ⟨p. 22⟩to come after Death. Unto this Amazing Punishment, the Denomination given is that, Rev. XX. 14. This is the Second Death. But verily, There is nothing in the First Death, which may be compared unto the Destructive Miseries in that Second Death. DEATH is the King of Terrors; But in comparison of the Second Death, it is but a Shadow of Death; It has no Terrors comparable to those of the Second Death.
III. Twice has the Trumpet sounded; The sound must wax Louder and Louder. Behold, the Third Proclamation of Wo unto the Wicked, now cometh quickly! You are to be now informed, That no Death can be so Formidable as the Punishment of Sin in Destructive Miseries upon the Soul as well as the Body of the Sinner, in the HELL that is ⟨p. 22⟩to come after Death. Unto this Amazing Punishment, the Denomination given is that, Rev. XX. 14. This is the Second Death. But verily, There is nothing in the First Death, which may be compared unto the Destructive Miseries in that Second Death. DEATH is the King of Terrors; But in comparison of the Second Death, it is but a Shadow of Death; It has no Terrors comparable to those of the Second Death.
Unto this tremendous Assertion, there has been a mighty Army of Martyrs who have born a Testimony, which ought to be far from Contemptible with us. Come with me, to Mahanaim, and see the Hosts of GOD, and hear their Testimony. There have been Thousands of good and wise Men, who rather than Sin against the Glorious GOD have not loved their Lives unto the Death; but been willing to Dye before the Term to which in the course of Nature they might have lived. When these Men were put