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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
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Let thy heart leap to hear such Language of this blood. Go thy way and spend that little time that is left thee in studying the Vileness of thy sins committed, & the Misery unto which ⟨p. 113⟩thou art thereby exposed, together with the Excellence and Preciousness of Jesus Christ, and Him crucified, who is ready to save thee from Sin present and wrath to come. And tho' thou art not able to come, yet the glorious lifting up of Christ in the Gospel, together with the general Invitation unto all that need Him, are the means appointed & blest by God to draw Men to come.
Let thy heart leap to hear such Language of this blood. Goe thy way and spend that little time that is left thee in studying the Vileness of thy sins committed, & the Misery unto which ⟨p. 113⟩thou art thereby exposed, together with the Excellence and Preciousness of Jesus Christ, and Him crucified, who is ready to save thee from Sin present and wrath to come. And tho' thou art not able to come, yet the glorious lifting up of Christ in the Gospel, together with the general Invitation unto all that need Him, are the means appointed & blest by God to draw Men to come.
Christ would •ain have the Honour of saving such a wretched Sinner as thou art, and be thou well assured that unless thou add unto that Sin of shedding of Man's Blood, the guilt of Refusing and Slighting of Christ's Blood, thou shalt not perish.
All the sins that ever thou hast committed shall not damn thee, unless thou add Unbelief to all the rest, viz. the wilful rejecting of a tendered Saviour. There is Wrath on thee, but it shall not be Everlastingly upon thee, if thou Believe; it is Unbelief only that makes Wrath abide, (