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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. III.
Exemple. III.
An English Ship sailing from some-where about the Mouth of the Straits, was manned with some cruel Miscreants, who quarrelling with the M••ter & some of the Officers, turned them all into the Long-boat, with a small quantity of provisions, about an hundred Leagues to the westward of the Spanish Coast. These fellows in the mean while sail for New-England, where as Providence would have it, the Master and his afflicted Company in the Long-boat arrived too; all except one who died of their Barbarous usage. His countenance was now become terrible unto them, who though they had Escaped the Sea, yet Vengeance would not suffer them to live ashoar, […] his Instance, and complaint they were apprehended, and the Ring-leaders of this •••derous Piracy had a Sentence of Death […] on them. The horrors which ⟨p. 6⟩attended the Chief of these M••••actors in his D•ing hours were such as exceedingly astonished the beholders. Though he was a very stout man, yet now his Tremblings and Agonies were inexpressible. One speech let fall by him was, I have been amongst drawn sword, flying bullets, roaring Canons, amidst all which I never knew what fear meant; but now I have apprehensions of the dreadful wrath of God in the other world, which I am going into, my soul within me is amazed at it. Loud cries the spilt blood of a Brother; He kills himself that slays another. Clamitat ad Caelum vox Sanguinis.