A sermon occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder preached…

O that the eternal Spirit would rend the heavens & come down to rend the hearts which are still shut against all the motions that Jesus Christ does make unto them. It is foretold concerning the Day of the Lord's working upon Israel, in Isai. 12. In that day shall a man look to his Maker. O for the Dawns of such a day upon us, wherein it may be said, In this day, many a man looks to his Redeemer. O that every seat within these walls might be full of the believing souls, who at this moment say unto the Lord Jesus Christ, as he in Psal. 5. 3. My voice shalt Thou hear, O Lord, and I will look up: and who will evermore keep looking, and looking, and looking, unto the Lord Jesus Christ, until He do arise & save them. Amen.

But what is thus said unto All is now mainly to be said unto One. I see a Condemned Prisoner here, to whom this CALL of the GOSPEL is most particularly to be directed.

But what is thus said unto All is now mainly to be said unto One. I see a Condemed Prisoner here, to whom this CALL of the GOSPEL is most particularly to be directed.

The Message which I have to bring unto You, is like that which the Prophet once carried unto a better man, O Set thy Soul in order, for thou shal• DIE and not live. It is indeed a very sorrowful thing unto us, to see, that a man in his early ⟨p. 75⟩days should thus die before his time for his being wicked overmuch! That when half the Age of a man has not passed over you, a doleful dreadful Storm of God does hurry you away from your afflicted family. Yea, that men do clap their hands at you, and hiss you out of your place. I hope there are no such flinty bowels here, as do not yearn over you: yet the Land must not be polluted by the sparing of you. You have slain a man to your wounding & a miserable man to your hurt. You that have been wont formerly to say of the Sabbath, What a weariness is it? must not now be permitted to draw your breath until the Revolution of another Sabbath. Behold Now is your accepted time, Now is your day of Salvation. By that time a few swift hours are flown away, your precious and yet perishing soul is to be hurried away into Eternity.—But O what a […] soul gatring word is that, ETERNITY, ETERNITY! If within 4 or 5 days you have not secured the Salvation of your soul by looking unto Jesus Christ, your soul, that never-dying Soul of yours, that Spark of Immortality which yet takes up its lodging in you, must be broken in the place of dragons, for as many millions of Years as there are stars in the Sky, or drops in the Sea, or sands on the Shore, and yet be no nearer to he end of the Gnaws & Scalds that shall overwhelm it, than the first moment that they began. […] Sips of the cup which is there always in