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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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Min. But you can't sincerely desire that Christ should justify you, if you don't also desire that He should sanctify you: those 2 always go together. Is every lust that has hitherto had possession of your heart become so loathsome to you, that is would fill your soul with joy to hear Jesus Christ say, I will subdue those Iniquities of thine; I will make a holy, heavenly, a spiritually minded person of thee.
Min. But you can't sincerely desire that Christ should justify you, if you don't also desire that He should sanctify you: those 2 alwdies go together. Is evry lust that has hitherto had possession of your heart become so loathsom to you, that is would fill your soul with joy to hear Jesus Christ say, I will subdue those Iniquities of thine; I will make a holy, heavenly, a spiritually minded person of thee.
Mor. I would sin against God no more.
Min. But I must deal plainly with you: You have made it sadly suspicious that your repentance is not yet as it ought to be: when men truly & throughly repent of sin they use to be in a special manner watchful against that Sir which has bin their chief Sin: one of your principal sins which has indeed brought you to the Death of a Murderer, is Passion, unmortified & outrageous Passionateness: Now I have been this day informed, that no longer since than the last night, upon some Dissatisfaction about the place which the Authority hath ordered you by and by to be buried in, you did express, your self with a most unruly Passionateness.
Min. But I must deal plainly with you: You have made it sadly suspicious that your repentance is not yet as it ought to be: when men truly & throughly repent of sin they use to be in a special manner watchful against that Sir which has bin their chief Sin: one of your principal sins which has indeed brought you to the Death of a Murderer, is Passion, unmortifi'd & outragious Passionateness: Now I have been this day informed, that no longer since than the last night, upon some Dissatisfaction about the place which the Authority hath ordered you by and by to be buried in, you did express, your self with a most unruly Passionateness.