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

You are yet but a young man, and according to ordinary course might have lived many years in this world, had not your over-much Wickedness brought you to die before your time, as Eccles. 7. 17. Not before God's time, but before your time, i. e. before that time which is usual for man, whose days are reckoned threescore and ten, and sometimes four score years. Ps. 9. 10. Also before your time which probably you had lotted on, and which men too often do promise themselves. Such as upon any awakenings of Conscience and Calls to Repentance, delay & put it off while in their Youth, it is upon a promise of repenting when they are old, and how many in that sense die before their time!

You are yet but a young man, and according to ordinary course might have lived many years in this world, had not your over-much Wickedness brought you to dy before your time, as Eccles. 7. 17. Not before God's time, but before your time, i. e. before that time which is usual for man, whose dayes are reckoned threestore and ten, and sometimes four score years. Ps. 9. 10. Also before your time which probably you had lotted on, and which men too often do promise themselvs. Such as upon any awakenings of Conscience and Calls to Repentance, delay & put it off while in their Youth, it is upon a promise of repenting when they are old, and how many in that sense die before their time!

And here for your further awakening, observe the Lord in his Providence making good another dreadful word upon you, viz. that […] and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, Psal. 55. 23. Thus you are a son of Death. God and man have said to thee, Oh wicked man, thou shalt surely dye.