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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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EXAMPLE. I.
EXEMPLE. I.
The First Murderer of his Neighbour in New-England (as I take it) was one Billington at Plymouth in the year 1630. He shot a poor man that he was a mortal enemy unto, & expected that for want of Power or of People in that Infant Plantation he should have evaded the execution due to him for his Capital Offence▪ but Justice inflicted has deserved death upon him.
The First Murtherer of his Neighbour in New-England (as I take it) was one Billington at Plimouth in the year 1630. He shott a poor man that he was a mortal enemy unto, & expected that for want of Power or of People in that Infant Plantation he should have evaded the execution due to him for his Capital Offence▪ but Justice inflicted has deserved death upon him.
Example, II.
Exemple, II.
One Mary Martin, her Father going away from hence to England, had left her in the House of one Mr. Mitten, a Married man, who became so enamoured of her as that he attempted her Chastity Such was her weakness and Folly, that she yielded unto the vile Temptations; tho' with such Reluctancies, that begging of God for deliverance from the wicked ollicatio, she pleaded, If ever she were overen again, she would leave her self unto his […], to be made a public Example, Howev […] governing her self, nor Rememng