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Tremenda. The dreadful sound with which the wicked are to be thunderstruck
Tremenda. The dreadful sound with which the wicked are to be thunderstruck. : In a sermon delivered unto a great assembly, in which was present, a miserable African, just going to be executed for a most inhumane and uncommon murder. At Boston, May 25th. 1721. : To which is added, a conference between a minister and the prisoner, on the day before his execution. : [One line from Deuteronomy]
Boston: printed by B. Green for B. Gray & J. Edwards, 1721
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In pursuance of this Commission, we will first make this Enquiry,
WHO is the Wicked Man?
And surely, When it is asked, Who is the Wicked Man ? It must needs be a Dreadful Sound, in the Ears of the Man to whom it shall be with Conviction said, Thou art the Men. For this to be spoken from the Word of GOD unto any Man, Thou art a Wicked Man; verily There cannot be a more Dreadful Sound heard among the Children of Men. I shall proceed upon it; Who is the Wicked Man?
It must be answered, First, More Negatively. 'Tis not merely to be a Sinner, that will con•••••e a Wicked Man. Eliphaz does not say or every Man who may fall into a Sin, A Dreadful Sound is in his Ears. For, There is not a Just Man upon Earth, who doeth good and sinneth not. It has been truly observed, The Best of Saints while here on Earth are Sinners; but the worst of Saints are not Wicked. Indeed, There can be no Sin committed, but there issues from the Law of GOD a Dreadful Sound unto the Sinner. No Man can Sin, but the Law of GOD will upon it say unto him; Ezek. XVIII.4