A50164:11
Speedy repentance urged a sermon preached at Boston, December 29, 1689
Speedy repentance urged a sermon preached at Boston, December 29, 1689 : in the hearing and at the request of one Hugh Stone, [a mis]erable man [under a just sen]tense of [death] for a [tragical and] hor[rible murder : together with some account concerning the character, carriage, and execution of that unhappy malefactor : to which are added certain memorable providences relating to some other murders, & some great instances of repentance which have been seen amongst us / by Cotton Mather.]Speedy repentance urged a sermon preached at Boston, December 29, 1689 : in the hearing and at the request of one Hugh Stone, [a mis]erable man [under a just sen]tence of [death] for a [tragical and] hor[rible murder : together with some account concerning the character, carriage, and execution of that unhappy malefactor : to which are added certain memorable providences relating to some other murders, & some great instances of repentance which have been seen amonst us / by Cotton Mather.]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1690
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.
WE have now before us, a very miserable, but we cannot excuse the hardness of our own Hearts, if it be not also a very profitable, Spectacle. You see a poor man in Irons here, whose crying Murders have now procured unto him that Sentence, which will not permit him to live many hours longer in the world. His Case do's truly Preach to […] •ame that my Text will Preach […] ⟨p. 2⟩but while I have an Eye to his particular circumstances, I shall not so overlook yours, as to leave any one person in this vast Congregation without the Food proper in the present season for them. This Malefactor does know that he quickly must; and all of you do not know but you sooner may come to sleep in the Dust; wherefore let every one of you now hear as those that are concerned to get their Transgression pardoned, and their Iniquity taken away.
VVE have now before us, a very miserable, but we cannot excuse the hardness of our own Hearts, if it be not also a very profitable, Spectacle. You see a poor man in Irons here, whose crying Murders have now procured unto him that Sentence, which will not permit him to live many hours longer in the world. His Case do's truly Preach to 〈…〉 •ame that my Text will Preach 〈…〉 ⟨p. 2⟩but while I have an Eye to his particular circumstances, I shall not so overlook yours, as to leave any one person in this vast Congregation without the Food proper in the present season for them. This Malefactor does know that he quickly must; and all of you do not know but you sooner may come to sleep in the Dust; wherefore let every one of you now hear as those that are concerned to get their Transgression pardoned, and their Iniquity taken away.
The Book of JOB, in a sweet Poesy, gives us a true History, of strange Calamities, and stranger Deliverances befalling a famous Person, who made Arabia the Happy, by his dwelling there. Had it not been Real and Certain matter of Fact, which is here […], we may not imagine that […] Prophet Ezekiel, or the Apostle James, would have made such References, as they did unto it; it only remains that we do our parts to make it as useful as 'tis Real and Certain.