N00429:136
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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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.
Are you sensible, That you were Born a Sinner? That the Guilt of the First Sin committed ••y Adam, is justly charged upon you? And that you have hereupon a Wicked Nature in you, full of Enmity, against all that is Holy, and Just, and Good? For which you deserved to be destroyed, as soon as you first came into this World.
H. S. I am sensible of this.
Min. Are you further sensible, that you have Lived, a very ungodly Life? That you are guilty of thousands of Actual Sins, every one of which deserves the W•ath and Curse of God, both in this Life, and that which is to come?
H. S. I am sensible of this also.
Min. But are you sensible, That you have broken all the Laws of God? You know the Commandments. Are you sensible, That you have broken very one of Them.