A50164:62
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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Assertion 2.
The Pardon of Sin, is not after Death, a thing to be obtained. As 'tis said in Isa. 38. 18, 19. They that go down into the Pit, cannot hope for thy Truth; The Living, the Living, he shall praise thee. Even so, The Living, the Living, he may get a Pardon, but if once a man be gone down to the Pit. he is past hope of such a thing. The Dead must cry out, ⟨p. 31⟩as the Dying have sometimes done▪ with a woeful Desperation, 'Tis all too late! all too late! When once a man is Dead, what is the next thing? 'Tis answered in Heb. 9. 27. After Death, the Judgment. A Judgment, and not a Pardon, is the thing to be then attended unto. And what kind of Judgment will it be? Truly,'twill be a Judgment which no Pardon will Reverse, none can Repeal. We read an amazing property of it, in Heb. 6. •. Eternal Judgment; even the Jews in their Confession of Faith call it so. When once we are Dead, we pass into a World, where all is Eternal; there we are fixed like Rocks in an astonishing Ocean of Eternity; 'tis an Eternity of Weal, or an Eternity of Woe, nothing but Eternity which remains before us. And O how awful should the mention of Eternity, Eternity! be to YOU, forlorn and fettered man, who, if you do not get a Pardon of the Great God, before this week be ou•, ⟨p. 32⟩must unto all Eternity be deprived of it.