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

That you would look upon Jesus Christ, as not only able but willing to be your Saviour. It is true, that you have murdered your own soul many Thousands of times, by leading a life of most horrid Impieties. It is true that after all you have murdered the Body (and no thanks to you if not the soul) of your Neighbour too. Yea, it is true, (and O that the Rock in your bosom might •low with tears at the stroke of such a thought) that you have by sin wickedly murdered the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, Yet, yet is the Lord Jesus Christ from yonder heaven this day pleading with you, O look upon Me as one ready ⟨p. 78⟩to be thine. He that says, Look unto me all […] end of the earth, also saith, Poor man, do thou look unto me from thy Dungeon, yea; and when thou shalt be at the end of the Town upon thy Ladder also. Oh Jesus Christ is that Saviour who said once to a Malefactor in the after-noon wherein he was hanged, This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Christ is that Saviour who made a pardoned Disciple of one from whom he was put to cast out […] devils, perhaps as many fiends as your soul has bin the Castle of. Multitudes of such bloody creatures as the infamous Manasseh was have been taken under the merciful wings of Jesus Christ. O thou Prisoner of hope, it is not an utterly impossible thing, that Jesus Christ should take from the Gallows unto Glory.

That you would look upon Jesus Christ, as not only able but willing to be your Saviour. It is true, that you have murdered your own soul many Thousands of times, by leading a life of most horrid Impietyes. It is true that after all you have murdered the Body (and no thanks to you if not the soul) of your Neighbour too. Yea, it is true, (and O that the Rock in your bosom might •low with tears at the stroke of such a thought) that you have by sin wickedly murdered the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, Yet, yet is the Lord Jesus Christ from yonder heaven this day pleading with you, O look upon Me as one ready ⟨p. 78⟩to be thine. He that saies, Look unto me all 〈…〉 end of the earth, also saith, Poor man, do thou look unto me from thy Dungeon, yea; and when thou shalt be at the end of the Town upon thy Ladder also. Oh Jesus Christ is that Saviour who said once to a Malefactor in the after-noon wherein he was hang'd, This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Christ is that Saviour who made a pardoned Discipile of one from whom he was put to cast out devils, perhaps as many fiends as your soul has bin the Castle of. Multitudes of such bloody creatures as the infamous Manasseh was have been taken under the merciful wings of Jesus Christ. O thou Prisoner of hope, it is not an utterly impossible thing, that Jesus Christ should take from the Gallows unto Glory.