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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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Example, II.
Exemple, II.
One Mary Martin, her Father going away from hence to England, had left her in the House of one Mr. Mitten, a Married man, who became so enamoured of h•• as that he attempted her Chastity: Such was her weakness and Folly, that •hee yielded unto the vile Temptations; tho' with such Reluctancies, that begging of God for deliverance from the wi••• solicitations, she pleaded, If over she were overtaken again, she would leave her self unto his Justice, to be made a publi•• ••mple, However not governing her self, nor Remembering ⟨p. 4⟩her promise, with the same Sin a third time was she overtaken. Afterwards going to Service in Boston, she found her self to have conceived; but living with a favourable Mistress, who would not allow any Suspicion or Suggestion of her Dishonesty, and thinking her self unable to bear the shame or grief of the Discovery, she wholly concealed it until the Time of her Delivery. Being then alone by her self in a dark room she used violence to destroy the Child, once and again, before she effected the unnatural Barbarity. Hereupon she wrapped up the Infant in her Chest for fifteen days until her Master & Mistress went aboard the ship in which they were Transporting themselves to England. On this Occasion the was put to remove unto another House there some that before had apprehended, how perceived that she had lately been delivered of a Child. They charging it upon her, she at first denied the Murder, & said, It was still, •orn, but upon search it was […] him her chest, and she being made to […] the […] of it, before the Jury, the blood came fresh thereinto; whereupon the confessed the whole Truth. In her […] […] and at her Execution she carried her self so Exceeding penitently