A sermon, occasioned

1. Consider what a sinner you have bin. The Sin which you are to die for, is as red as Scarlet; and many other sins, hath your wicked life been filled with. You have been a stranger to me, I never saw you, I never heard of you, till you, had committed the Murder for which you must dye this day; but I hear by others, that have known you, how wicked you have been: and you have your self confessed to the world, that you have been guilty of Drunkenness, guilty of Cursing & Swearing, guilty of Sabbath-breaking, guilty of Lying, guilty of secret Uncleanness; as Solomon said to Shimei, Thou knowest the wickedness which thine own heart is privy unto: so I say to you. And that which aggravates your Guiltiness not a little, is, That since you have been in Prison, you have done wickedly: you have made your self drunk several times since your Imprisonment; ⟨p. 31⟩yea, and you have bin guilty of Lying since your Condemnation. It was said to a dying man, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art under Condemnation! Oh what a sinner have you bin! for since you have bin under Condemnation, you have not feared God. And how have you sinned against the Gospel? What Unbelief, what Impenitency have you bin guilty of!

Consider 2. What Misery you have brought upon your self, on your Body, that must dye an […] ed death: you must hang between Heaven and Earth, as it were forsaken of both, and unworthy to be in either. And what Misery have you brought upon your poor Children! you have brought an everlasting Reproach upon them. How great will their Shame be, when it shall be said to them, that their Father was hanged, not for his goodness, as many in the world have bin, but for his wickedness: not as a Martyr, but as a Malefactor, truly so! But that which is Ten Thousand Thousand times worse than all this, is, That you have (without Repentance) brought undoing Misery upon your poor yet precious Soul: not only Death on your Body, but a Second Death on your never-dying Soul. It is said in the Scripture, That Murderers shall have their part in the lake, which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the Second Death. Rev. 21. 8. O tremble at that! I remember a Man that was condemned and Executed in this place some years ago, that had been a Soldier,