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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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The first thing that lies heavy on my Heart is, My Profanation of the Lords Day, and my frequently & needlessly neglecting the Public Worship of God. A Sin, which let all that love their Souls be afraid of▪ ⟨p. 4⟩I have wounded my Soul sometimes by excessive Drinking. A Sin that leads to many others. I have been very vile in Swearing and Cursing. Lord, send me not among those whose Language I have been used unto! Ungoverned Anger has brought my Death. Beware, my Friends, of this deadly Evil. But I would especially bewail my Prayerless Life. I had no Prayers with my Family, nor in my Retirement, in the Morning of the Day, when I was left unto the Murder of my Neighbour. O my Friends, In the Day, which you don't begin with Prayers unto God, little do you know what God may leave you to.
The first thing that lies heavy on my Heart is, My Prophanation of the Lords Day, and my frequently & needlesly neglecting the Publick Worship of God. A Sin, which let all that love their Souls be afraid of▪ ⟨p. 4⟩I have wounded my Soul sometimes by excessive Drinking. A Sin that leads to many others. I have been very vile in Swearing and Cursing. Lord, send me not among those whose Language I have been used unto! Ungoverned Anger has brought my Death. Beware, my Friends, of this deadly Evil. But I would especially bewail my Prayerless Life. I had no Prayers with my Family, nor in my Retirement, in the Morning of the Day, when I was left unto the Murther of my Neighbour. O my Friends, In the Day, which you don't begin with Prayers unto God, little do you know what God may leave you to.
Thus, I would as in the Presence of God, and as I am now in a short Time to appear before my great Judge, there to give up an Account of my Actions done in the Flesh, solemnly exhort and warn all that shall see or hear of my Tragical and Untimely End; But more particularly Masters of Families, that they do not neglect Prayers in their Families, and a due Attendance on the Public Worship of God, on his Holy Day,