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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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Shall I say unto you, That if the Fear of GOD will not produce your Prayer to GOD, and cause you with your Families to call upon His Name, the Wrath of GOD shall be poured upon you, and upon your worse than Paganizing Families? Or shall it be said unto you; O our YOUNG PEOPLE, if you will not be the Early Seekers of GOD, and Followers of your SAVIOUR, He will permit the Destroyer to do sad Things upon you, and hurry you on to a Fearful End! All these Things are no other what this poor Man does Entreat me to speak from him unto you all, and beseech you to take Notice of them. From him there is now this cry in the midst of the Assembly made unto you all; O Fear GOD in such Things as these, lest He destroy you wonderfully!
But, O DYING MAN, as I have now spoken from you, 'tis Time that I once again speak to you! ⟨p. 46⟩Once again!—But as never to do it again. The last Words, my Friend, The last Words of your own FUNERAL SERMON, are now to be addressed unto you.
But, O DYING MAM, as I have now spoken from you, 'tis Time that I once again speak to you! ⟨p. 46⟩Once again!—But as never to do it again. The last Words, my Friend, The last Words of your own FUNERAL SERMON, are now to be address'd unto you.
Having been so concerned,—and it is no Bad sign to be so concerned, That your Neighbours may by the Fear of GOD, be preserved from the HELL, wherein the Wicked shall be Punished, Every One will take it for granted, that you have made it your own main Concern to be preserved from that Place of Dragons. You are aware, 'Tis the Fear of GOD, that must preserve you! If you have the Fear of God now at last wrought in a Soul, which has been for Three or Four and Thirty years destitute of it, and Lying Dead in Trespasses and Sins; Then, Then, is your Grand point secured. Oh! Lift up an unpacified cry to the GOD of all Grace; Lord, Unite my Heart for thee, and for the Fearing of thy Name!