A50164:75
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.
Counsel 2.
Seek a Pardon, and seek it PRESENTLY. Be able to say, concerning your Seeking a Pardon from, as the Psalmist said about his Keeping the Precept of, the Eternal God; I made Hast, and did not Delay to do it.
To awaken your Hast here-about.
Consider the Incredible Dangers of all Delays. Your main Business is to become well provided of a pardon for your Sins. Let me now say unto you, as in 2 Cor. 6. 2. Behold, Now is the Accepted Time, Behold Now is the Day of Salvation!If you slip th•s N•w, you may never have another; you may miss of Acceptance and Salvation for ever more. O do not say, as […] Unhappy Faelix did I'll concern my self about these matters at a more convenient season; for a More convenient Season will never com• The Great God says, To Day! and ⟨p. 41⟩our To morrow, cannot be a more convenient season than that which the all-wise God hath pointed us unto. You have Now about you, a thousand conveniences for the getting of a Pardon, which no Season hereafter will have blowing in the Sails thereof. Nay tis possible, you may never have any other season at all. We are told, in