Speedy repentance urged a sermon preached at Boston, December 29, 1689

What shall I say, that may stimulate the Christward motions of you• Fettered Soul!

I am to tell you, First, That your Slit is very Great. The Sin, for which you now stand Condemned, is, a sin of a deep & bloody Dye▪ Murder is the most Barbarous and Devilish, among all the Crimes that are Iniquities to be punished by the Judge. Will a Wolf kill a Wolf? no, and the very Bears agree among themselves. But shall a Man than be worse than a Wolf unto a Man? If, He that loves ⟨p. 58⟩another fulfils the Law, 'tis easy to tell what he does, that Murders another. The most Wretched Pagans have observed of the Murderer, That Vengeance will not suffer him to Live. But your Murder is one hardly to be paralleled in an Age! 'Tis said, No Man (if he have but the Heart of a MAN in him) ever hated his own Flesh. What then are you, that have Murdered yours? Find a Name for yourself, if you think it possible! You have Murdered Her whom you should have Loved above all the world; Her whom you should have Cherished with all the Kindness and Goodness of an Holy Conversation; Her whom you should have been willing even your self to have Died for the preservation of. And with Her 'tis said, you have Murdered an Infant, which never saw the Light. This is your Sin. And Doubtless, they were not few or small Sins, for which God left you unto This. You ⟨p. 59⟩had long before, been guilty of those Impious both Omissions and Commissions, which gave the Devil at last a very entire Possession of you. O Consider of them all; a•d especially Trouble your own Soul, for your Unbelief in Rejecting the Saviour of it. You have sat long under the Gospel; but you have Refused, yea you have Crucified the blessed Redeemer, who therein besought you to be Reconciled unto God. How should the Remembrance of this be to you, as the Wormwood and the Gall, and cause your Soul to be Humbled in you.