A50164:110
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.
And while you are thus looking to Him, study to do some Remarkable Thing for the Honour and Glory of God, and for the warning of such as are walking in those ways, which ⟨p. 65⟩have brought you to this, That Men clap their Hands at you, and hiss […] of your place. This is the least you […] do by way of Gratitude unto Him […] has made you so capable of a Pardon […] you are.
And while you are thus looking to Him, study to do some Remarkable Thing for the Honour and Glory of God, and for the warning of such as are walking in those wayes, which ⟨p. 65⟩have brought you to this, That Men clap their Hands at you, and hiss 〈…〉 of your place. This is the least you 〈…〉 do by way of Gratitude unto Him 〈…〉 has made you so capable of a Pardon 〈…〉 you are.
I have done. But O that you ma• not be Hard-hearted any more! […] have the Name of STONE; God forbid, that you should have the qualities and properties of a Stone, in your obduration. May these Words […] as deep into your•heart as your […] did into the Throat of your […] Wife! may the God of […] therefore take away from you the […] of stone, and at the same time give you the white Stone of Absolution from […] many thousands of Sins, with which you stand charged in the Books of hi• Remembrance.
I have done. But O that you ma• not be Hard-hearted any more! 〈…〉 have the Name of STONE; God forbid, that you should have the qualilities and properties of a Stone, in your obduration. May these Words as deep into yourheart as your did into the Throat of your Wife! may the God of therefore take away from you the of stone, and at the same time give you the white Stone of Absolution from many thousands of Sins, with which you stand charged in the Books of hi Remembrance.