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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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But more particularly,
I. The Threatenings which are denounced in the Word of GOD against every Wicked Man: Certainly, these must needs make a Dreadful Sound in the Ears of a Wicked Man. When the Commandments of GOD were given from the Flaming Mountain, there was a Dreadful Sound in the Ears of the People. We read, Exod. XIX.16. There were Thunderings and Lightnings, and the voice of a Trumpet exceeding loud, so that all the people that were in the camp trembled. The Commandments of GOD are armed with Tremendous Threatenings against the Breaches of it. The Law has its Penalties for the Breakers of it The Threatenings in the ⟨p. 11⟩Word of GOD, against the Wickedness, wherein the Law of GOD is violated, what are they but Thunderings and Lightnings; and the Voice of a Trumpet exceeding Loud, making a Dreadful Sound in the Ears of a Wicked man. O most Hard hearted one, why dost thou Tremble so little under the Fulminations? We read, Rom. I.18. The wrath of GOD is revealed from Heaven, against all Ungodliness & Unrighteousness of men. 'Tis Revealed & Proclaimed, & Published in the Threatenings of His Word. But, What a Dreadful Sound is made by these Threatenings in the Ears of all Ungodly and Unrighteous men? Hearken to the Dreadful Sound, which the Word of GOD makes, in the Threatenings of it. Hear attentively, the Noise of His Voice, and the Sound that goeth out of His Mouth. The Voice roareth; He Thundereth with the Voice of His Excellency. He Thundereth marvellously with His Voice; the Dreadful Things which He will do unto the Wicked: Things which we cannot comprehend! Is there not a Dreadful Sound in that word of GOD! Eccl. VIII.13. It shall not be well with the wicked. Is there not a Dreadful Sound in that word of GOD! Psal. XXXII.10