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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, I.
Exemple, I.
A while since, there dyed at Lancaster, a man whose name was Richard Lenten, arrived in age to so many years above an hundred, That he had lived in Wedlock with his wise for Sixty three years, and yet she was Thirty five years younger than himself; ⟨p. 9⟩and he was able to follow his toils at Husbandry, very livelily but about a month before his End.
This man had been all his days a poor ignorant carnal and sottish man, and unacquainted with the very Principles of his Catechism, after he had sat under so many hundreds of Sermons as he had: Nevertheless, when he was about, an hundred years old, God blessed the Ministry of His Word unto this mans awakening; and he became a diligent Enquirer after the things of the life to come, and a Constant Serious Attender on all that was Religious. He arrived unto such measures of a well informed Devotion, that the Church which was very strict in the terms of their Communion, yet received him into their Fellowship about Two years before he died; Wherein he continued under a good Character, so long as he continued in the World.
This man had been all his dayes a poor ignorant carnal and sottish man, and unacquainted with the very Principles of his Catechism, after he had satt under so many hundreds of Sermons as he had: Nevertheless, when he was about, an hundred years old, God blessed the Ministry of His Word unto this mans awakening; and he became a diligent Enquirer after the things of the life to come, and a Constant Serious Attender on all that was Religious. He arrived unto such measures of a wellinformed Devotion, that the Church which was very strict in the terms of their Communion, yet received him into their Fellowship about Two years before he dy'd; Wherein he continued under a good Character, so long as he continued in the World.