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Speedy repentance urged. A sermon preached at Boston, Decemb. 29. 1689. In the hearing,…
Speedy repentance urged. A sermon preached at Boston, Decemb. 29. 1689. In the hearing, and at the request of one Hugh Stone, a miserable man under a just sentence of death, for a tragical and horrible murder. : Together with some account concerning the character, carriage, and execution of that unhappy malefactor. : To which are added, certain memorable providences relating to some other murders; & some great instances of repentance which have been seen among us. / By Cotton Mather Pastor of the Gospel in Boston.
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1690
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And while you are thus looking to Him, study to do some Remarkable Thing for the Honour and Glory of God, and for the warning of such as are walking in those ways, which ⟨p. 65⟩have brought you to this, That Men •ap their Hands at you, and hiss you out of your place. This is the least you can do by way of Gratitude unto Him that has made you so capable of a Pardon as you are.
And while you are thus looking to Him, study to do some Remarkable Thing for the Honour and Glory of God, and for the warning of such as are walking in those wayes, which ⟨p. 65⟩have brought you to this, That Men •ap their Hands at you, and hiss you out of your place. This is the least you can do by way of Gratitude unto Him that has made you so capable of a Pardon as you are.
I have done. But O that you may not be Hard-hearted any more! You have the Name of STONE; God forbid, that you should have the qualities and properties of a Stone, in your obduration. May these Words pierce as deep into your heart, as your Knife did into the Throat of your miserable Wife! may the God of Heaven therefore take away from you the heart of stone, and at the same time give you the white Stone of Absolution from the many thousands of Sins, with which you stand charged in the Books of his Remembrance.
I have done. But O that you may not be Hard-hearted any more! You have the Name of STONE; God forbid, that you should have the qualilities and properties of a Stone, in your obduration. May these Words pierce as deep into your heart, as your Knife did into the Throat of your miserable Wife! may the God of Heaven therefore take away from you the heart of stone, and at the same time give you the white Stone of Absolution from the many thousands of Sins, with which you stand charged in the Books of his Remembrance.