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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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IV. But All have Sinned! And What? Is there no Remedy nor Escaping? Yes, my Friends; I bring you good Tidings of great Joy! An Improvement is now to be made of these Faithful sayings: Which are also how Fearful ones! The FEAR of GOD, is now to be prescribed unto you, as the only Method of your Deliverance from the Destructive Miseries which the Punishment Of Sin is big withal. Every One will take it for granted, That the GOD who is Able to Destroy both Soul and Body in Hell, is a GOD forever ⟨p. 37⟩to be Feared. Who shall not Fear thee, O Lord, and Glorify thy Name? Certainly, A sorry Worm crawling upon the Earth, urging us to Sin against Him, cannot be so worthy to be Feared, as He. Think of this, O all you, whom the Fear of Man, may be likely to draw into any Snare of Sin. But I am now to advise you, That if you would be delivered from the Destruction of both Soul and Body in Hell, it must be by the Fear of GOD. So we are instructed, Prov. XIV. 27. The Fear of the Lord is a Fountain of Life, to depart from the Snares of Death. O our Gospelized People; You must come into the Fear of GOD Immediately, if you would not be destroyed both Soul and Body in Hell, and if you would not perish wonderfully! We may justly make that Exclamation once made by the Man of GOD; Lord, Who so considers as to know what Power thy Anger has! Yea, even according to thy Fear so is thy flaming Wrath. Souls, According ⟨p. 38⟩as the Fear of GOD is in you or not, so shall the Wrath of GOD be dispensed unto you. You are on every side surrounded with persuasives to the Fear of GOD, persuasives Enough to render your Destruction as Demerited as Unavoidable, if you continue the Children of Unpersuadableness. But what is now insisted on is this; Oh! may you now be persuaded unto it, Knowing the Terror of the Lord. Come into the Fear of GOD, moved by this, Destruction from GOD, is a Terror to me!
IV. But All have Sinned! And What? Is there no Remedy nor Escaping? Yes, my Friends; I bring you good Tidings of great Joy! An Improvement is now to be made of these Faithful sayings: Which are also how Fearful ones! The FEAR of GOD, is now to be praescribed unto you, as the only Method of your Deliverance from the Destructive Miseries which the Punishment Of Sin is big withal. Every One will take it for granted, That the GOD who is Able to Destroy both Soul and Body in Hell, is a GOD forever