N00355:155
A sermon occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder preached…
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 that murderer to all persons; especially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end.) / By Increase Mather, teacher of church of Christ.
Boston: printed by R.P. i.e, 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.
Death is but the door between the two worlds, that lets the soul of a Christless sinner out of this world into Hell. The Second Death after the first, is the misery of the first, and the first would be comparatively but a small matter were it not for the second.
Death is but the door between the two worlds, that lets the soul of a Christless sinner out of this world into Hell. The Second Death after the first, is the misery of the first, and the first would be compartively but a small matter were it not for the second.
7. Finally, Consider you have no time to get sin pardoned & wrath turned away (if it be not done already) but between this and Death, into the very Borders, and under the Sentence of which you now are. In the grave there is no repentance, no Remission, Eccl. 9. 10. Before 4 days more pass over your head (and Oh how swiftly do they fly away!) you will be entered into an Eternal & unchangeable state of weal or woe, and of Woe it will be if speedy and thorough Repentance prevent it not.
7. Finally, Consider you have no time to get sin pardoned & wrath turned away (if it be not done already) but between this and Death, into the very Borders, and under the Sentence of which you now are. In the grave there is no repentance, no Remission, Eccl. 9. 10. Before 4 dayes more pass over your head (and Oh how swiftly do they fly away!) you will be entred into an Eternal & unchangeable state of weal or woe, and of Woe it will be if speedy and thorough Repentance prevent it not.
Thus far by way of Conviction & Awakening. My 2nd Word is principally by way of Counsel. Unto which I shall promise a Word of Encouragement, lost what has bin said may seem to harsh