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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 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.]
THERE are other Atrocious Crimes; whereof This has been the Consequence. — Judas and Pilate, are two fearful Examples of it! —
THERE are other Atrocious Crimes; whereof This has been the Consequence. — Iudas and Pilate, are two fearful Examples of it! —