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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
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.
Min. I beseech you to make this use of it, I believe there is not one Christian this day beholding you, who would not willingly be at the greatest pains they could devise to save your precious soul: How merciful then is that Man who is God as well as man! how unspeakably ready is the Ld. Christ to save the souls of sinners that affectionately look unto him! The goodness & pitifulness of the most tender-hearted man in the world is but a shadow of what is in Him. The compassions of any man compared with the Bowels of a merciful JESUS are but as the painted Sun, or the painted Fire in Comparison of the real.
Min. I beseech you to make this use of it, I believe there is not one Christian this day beholding you, who would not willingly be at the greatest pains they could devise to save your precious soul: How merciful then is that Man who is God as well as man! how unspeakably ready is the Ld. Christ to save the souls of sinners that affectionately look unto him! The goodness & pittifulness of the most tender-hearted man in the world is but a shadow of what is in Him. The compassions of any man compared with the Bowels of a merciful JESUS are but as the painted Sun, or the painted Fire in Comparison of the real.
Mor. Oh that I could now look unto Him as I ought to do! Lord help me.
Min. Well, you are now a dying man, the last hour or 2 of your life is now running. You know your self now to stand just on the brink of Eternity, you shall presently be in a state of wonderful happiness or of horrible misery which must endure forever: which of those estates do you now count your self stepping into▪