A50164:117
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
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There was a Minister that walked with him to his Execution; and I shall insert the principal Passages of the Discourse between them; in which the ⟨p. 69⟩Reader may find or make something useful to himself, what ever it were to the Poor Man who was more immediately concerned in it.
There was a Minister that walk'd with him to his Execution; and I shall insert the principal Passages of the Discourse between them; in which the ⟨p. 69⟩Reader may find or make something useful to himself, what ever it were to the Poor Man who was more immediately concerned in it.
Minister. I am come to give you what Assistance I can, in your taking of the Steps, which your eternal Wea• or Woe, now depends upon the well or ill taking of.
Minister. I am come to give you what Assistance I can, in your taking of the Steps, which your eternal Wea• or Wo, now depends upon the well or ill taking of.
Hugh Stone, Sir, I Thank you, and I beg you to do what you can for me.