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A call to the tempted. A sermon on the horrid crime of self-murder, preached…
A call to the tempted. A sermon on the horrid crime of self-murder, preached on a remarkable occasion, / by the memorable Dr. Increase Mather. ; And now published from his notes, for a charitable stop to suicides. ; [Five lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1723
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
BEWARE of Self Confidence. Be sensible of thy Weakness; Let him that Stands, take heed lest he fall Be not Confident of thy own Strength to Encounter the Adversary. If GOD should let Satan loose upon thee, he'll be too hard for thee.
BEWARE of an Heart glued unto the World. When the World is a Mans Idol, he will rather part with his very Life, [with his own hands give it away!] than part with the World.
BEWARE of Unbelief. — Distrust not the Fatherly Care of thy Heavenly Father
BEWARE of Despair; 1 Thes. V.8. Putting on for an Helmet, the Hope of Salvation. Say not, The Day of Grace is over with me. — Say not, I have Sinned Unpardonably! — Vain Imaginations.
BEWARE of the more Heinous Crimes; which are in a special Manner GOD-Provoking Evils. The Sins against Nature are so. Some that have been Guilty of such Sins, in Secret, and have not Repented of them; GOD has for such Things left them to This, which is a Sin against Nature too! [See Voetii Disp. ubi supra.]