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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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Secondly. The Fear of GOD, when 'tis wrought in a Soul, there is the Life of GOD begun in that Soul. O make out for, O make sure of, such a Vital Touch from GOD upon your minds, as will Quicken you to live unto Him. These always go together; Eccl. XII. 13 Fear GOD and keep His Commandments. The Fear of GOD infused into the Heart, will make a New Heart of it, and a clean One. Oh! Let that cry ascend from you with a matchless Agony, Create in me a Clean Heart, O GOD! The Fear of GOD, will dispose you to be afraid of every Thing which the Light of GOD within you, shall ⟨p. 41⟩pronounce a sinful Thing. It will dispose you, to fill your Lives with continual Acknowledgements of GOD, and make it your main Design, to please Him, your main Business to Serve Him, and Acknowledge Him in all your ways. It will dispose you, to acquiesce in the Will of GOD, and behave your selves as under the Eye of God, and as those who must give unto Him an Account of your Behaviour. It will dispose you to follow the pattern of your SAVIOUR, and rejoice in an Imitation of Him, a Conformity to Him. It will dispose you to Love your Neighbour▪ and still do to him, as you would own it Right for him to do unto you. Without these Dispositions, you cannot look for Admission into those Gates, which are set open for none but the Righteous Nation. If you cannot show such Tokens of Salvation, you shall never be received unto the Feast in the mount of GOD. Should a Soul without these Dispositions be taken ⟨p. 42⟩into Heaven, that Holy Place would soon purge it out, clear it self of so disagreeable a Nuisance. Wretched Soul, Heaven is a Soil, that cannot bear such a venomous […] in it. A Soul that has these Dispositions wrought in it, has Heaven it self inwrought into the very Temper of it; and if it were possible for such a Sanctified Soul to be thrown down into HELL, it would carry Heaven thither with it. Now, If any of you lack this wisdom let him ask it of GOD!
Secondly. The Fear of GOD, when 'tis wrought in a Soul, there is the Life of GOD begun in that Soul. O make out for, O make sure of, such a Vital Touch from GOD upon your minds, as will Quicken you to live unto Him. These always go together;