A50164:124
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.
Min. That is well, if it be True. But suffer me a little to search into the Condition of your Soul. Are you sensible, That you were Born a Sinner? That the Guilt of the First Sin committed by Adam, is justly charged upon you? And that you have hereupon a Wicked Nature in you, full of Enmity against all that is Holy, and Just, and Good? For which you deserved to be destroyed, as soon as you first came into this World.
Min. That is well, if it be True. But suffer me a little to search into the Condition of your Soul. Are you sensible, That you were Born a Sinner? That the Guilt of the First Sin committed by Adam, is justly charged upon you? And that you have hereupon a Wicked Nature in you, full of Enmity against all that is Holy, and Iust, and Good? For which you deserved to be destroyed, as soon as you first came into this World.
H. S. I am sensible of this.
Min. Are you further sensible, […] you have Lived, a very ungodly Life? That you are guilty of thousands of Actual Sins, every one of which deserves the Wrath and Curse of God, both in this Life, and that which is to come?
Min. Are you further sensible, 〈…〉 you have Lived, a very ungodly Life? That you are guilty of thousands of Actual Sins, every one of which deserves the Wrath and Curse of God, both in this Life, and that which is to come?