A50164:17
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.
For the Petition, it is with an Expostulation. It is, Why hast thou set me as a Mark against thee; so that I am a Burden to my self? The Sorrows of men, are the Arrows of God; they that […] shot full thereof are sensible of […] in every one of their […] Why hast thou? is here a Deprecation of the evil mentioned.
For the Petition, it is with an Expostulation. It is, Why hast thou set me as a Mark against thee; so that I am a Burden to my self? The Sorrows of men, are the Arrows of God; they that 〈…〉 shot full thereof are sensible of 〈…〉 in every one of their 〈…〉 Why hast thou? is here a Deprec•tion of the evil mentioned.
Well, if we now pass on to […] Text, we shall have there, both […], and an Argument.
Well, if we now pass on to 〈…〉 Text, we shall have there, both• 〈…〉, and an Argument.
For the Petition, it is here with an Expostulation too. Tis, Why dost thou not Pardon my Transgression, and take away my Iniquity? As before, Why dost Thou? was as much as to say, O do it not; so here, Why dost thou not? is equivalent unto saying, O do it. And it seems to follow upon the Title newly put upon the Great God, O thou Preserver of Men; q. d. Lord, since thou art the Preserver and the Pardoner of so many Sinners in the World, why should not I share in thy Mercies among the rest?
For the Petition, it is here with an Expostulation too. Tis, Why dost thou not Pardon my Transgression, and take oway my Iniquity? As before, Why dost Thou? was as much as to say, O do it not; so here, Why dost thou not? is equivalent unto saying, O do it. And it seems to follow upon the Title newly put upon the Great God, O thou Preserver of Men; q. d. Lord, since thou art the Preserver and the Pardoner of so many Sinners in the World, why should not I share in thy Mercies among the rest?