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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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They that are poor and wicked too (Ah most miserable Creatures) can for a penny or two pence make themselves drunk, I wish to the Lord, some remedy might be thought of, for the prevention of this evil. It's a very sad thing, that so many Bodies & Souls should be eternally ruined, and no help for it. How •ew are there, that if once they be addicted to this vice, do ever truly repent of it or turn from it. ⟨p. 26⟩There was a Man, who hearing that his So• took evil courses, and that he followed such a vice, well, (said he) I hope he'll leave that and that he was given to another vice, I hope (said he) he'll leave that too; but it was told him that his Son was given to Drunkenness also Nay, then (said he) I have no hope of him▪ I will not say (as he did) There is no hope that ever a Drunkard should repent▪ but I say, there have been but few such Instances in the world. How rarely have any of you known a man that has been addicted to this Body-destroying, and Soul-murdering Iniquity, that has truly repented of it, or turned from it again! O then, Let Men that have any love for their Lives on Souls, beware of this bloody Sin.
They that are poor and wicked too (Ah most miserable Creatures) can for a peny or two pence make themselvs drunk, I wish to the Lord, some remedy might be thought of, for the prevention of this evil. It's a very sad thing, that so many Bodyes & Souls should be eternally ruin'd, and no help for it. How •ew are there, that if once they be addicted to this vice, do ever truly repent of it or turn from it. ⟨p. 26⟩There was a Man, who hearing that his So• took evil courses, and that he followed such a vice, well, (said he) I hope he'll leave that and that he was given to another vice, I hope (said he) he'll leave that too; but it was told him that his Son was given to Drunkenness also Nay, then (said he) I have no hope of him▪ I will not say (as he did) There is no hope that ever a Drunkard should repent▪ but I say, there have been but few such Instances in the world. How rarely have any of you known a man that has been addicted to this Body-destroying, and Soul-murdering Iniquity, that has truly repented of it, or turned from it again! O then, Let Men that have any love for their Lives on Souls, beware of this bloody Sin.