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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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Article. I
Act. XXVIII. 4. A Murderer—Vengeance suffereth not to live.
Act. XXVIII. 4. A Murtherer—Vengeance suffereth not to live.
Among all the perpetrators of the more hideous and enormous Impieties in the world, there is no person more Abhorred by the Lord, than the Murderer; and there is none so much pursued by the Lord as that bloody Monster is. Those Children of Cain, that rob their innocent Neighbours of their lives, usually endure ⟨p. 2⟩first all Hell in their own Consciences, by which Mark upon them, they are made more incapable of avoiding the Halter which they are worthy of, and that Halter is but a Sling out of which their guilty Souls are hurled into a further, a lasting, an endless Hell. Very trivial are the occasions and pretences for which often this pe••e of Devilism is committed. No greater provocations truly, than what the two Brothers at Padua had, between whom there Issued first a Quarrel and then a Murder, only from this Original, that on a certain evening together, one was wishing for Oxen as many as the Stars, the other was wishing for A Pasture as large as the Firmament. But the Expectations of its Concealment scarce ever escape a Lamentable Disappointment in them who are so vain as to promise unto themselves a Secrecy and Impunity in this Villainy; for a Beff will find the very Sallowes to Chirrup out his Murder of his Faer. Nor can a Temporal Recompense for this atrocious Iniquity ordinarily be avoided by the sincerest Repentance it self; besides the […] of eternal fore, which without Repentance […] follows there upon. The […] […] himself […]