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A sermon, occasioned
A sermon, occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder, preached at Boston in N.E., March 11th, 1685/6 (together with the confession, last expressions, & solemn warning of the murderer to all persons, especially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end) / by Increase Mather ...
Boston: printed by R.P., 1687
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.
[After the Discourse had been intermitted about a minute or two by reason of the miry way]
[After the Discourse had been intermitted about a minute or two by reason of the miery way]
Mor. I beseech you Sir speak to me. Do me all the good you can: my time grows very short: your discourse fits me for my Death more than any thing.
Min. I'm sorry so small a thing as a plashy Street should make me loose one minute of this more-than-ordinary precious time: a few paces more bring you to the place which you have now in your eye, from whence you shall not come back alive. Do you find your self afraid to die there?
Min. I'm sorry so small a thing as a plashy Street should make me loose one minute of this more-than-ordinary precious time: a few paces more bring you to the place which you have now in your eye, from whence you shall not come back alive. Do you find your self afraid to dy there?
Mor. Sir, If it were not for the Condition that my SOUL must by & by be in, I should not fear my death at all; but I have a little comfort from some of Gods promises about that.