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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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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. Yes, and its a wonderful thing that I have now further to tell you: Mind, I entreat you. The SON of GOD is become the Son of Man; the Lord Jesus Christ is both God & man in one Person, & he is both sufficiently able & willing also, to be your Saviour. He lived a most righteous life, and this was that such as you & I might be able to say before God, Lord, accept of me as if I had ⟨p. 119⟩lived righteously. He died at length a most cursed death, and this was that we might be able to say unto God, Lord, let not me die for sin, since thy Son has died in my room. This glorious Redeemer is now in the highest heaven, pleading with God for the Salvation of His chosen ones.—And He pours out his Spirit continually upon them that do believe on him: might you then be enabled by his grace to carry your poor, guilty, condemned, enslaved, ignorant soul unto Jesus Christ, and humbly put your trust in him for deliverance from the whole bad state which you are brought into. Oh then his voice is to you the same that was to the penitent Thief, This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.
Min. Yes, and its a wonderful thing that I have now further to tell you: Mind, I entreat you. The SON of GOD is become the Son of Man; the Lord Jesus Christ is both God & man in one Person, & he is both sufficiently able & willing also, to be your Saviour. He lived a most righteous life, and this was that such as you & I might be able to say before God, Lord, accept of me as if I had ⟨p. 119⟩liv'd righteously. He died at length a most cursed death, and this was that we might be able to say unto God, Lord, let not me die for sin, since thy Son has died in my room. This glorious Redeemer is now in the highest heaven, pleading with God for the Salvation of His chosen ones.—And He pours out his Spirit continually upon them that do believe on him: might you then be enabled by his grace to carry your poor, guilty, condemned, enslaved, ignorant soul unto Jesus Christ, and humbly put your trust in him for deliverance from the whole bad state which you are brought into. Oh then his voice is to you the same that was to the penitent Thief, This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.