A50164:72
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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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.
Counsel 1.
Seek a Pardon, and seek it EARNESTLY. O be in Good Earnest, & (to speak Scripturally) be in Agonies about this Grand Concern.
To awaken your zeal hereabout.
Consider, The vast Blessings and Comforts which a Pardon is accompanied ⟨p. 38⟩withal. Tis an iterated Exclamation about a pardoned Man in Psal. 3. • 1, 2. O the Blessednesses of such a man There are Blessednesses in this Life which a pardon will bring unto us. A pardon will be the Sugar of all our mercies. This was that which made Health, to be Health indeed unto Hezekiah; he could not only say, I am alive and Healthy! but he could say therewithal, as in Isai. 38. 17. Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. A Pardon will also be the sweetener of all our Troubles. It will be a piece of wood from the Cross of our Lord Jesus, to dulcify the waters of Marah, whih are usually so bitter to us. When a man lay sick of a sore Disease, this Word was enough to make his Bed for ever easy to him, in Ma. 9. 3 Son, be of good cheer, thy Sins be Forgiven thee. But there are more marvellous Blessednesses which a pardon brings in the Life to come […] a Link which the Apostle finds, it