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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.
There dwelt at a Village in this Country, one who dyed in December 1688. This man had been remarkable for his bad Life, till he had spent fifty years in the lewd and rude Courses of notorious Ungodliness. Though he had the Benefit ⟨p. 10⟩of a christian and pious Education, yet he had shaken off all the yokes which that had laid upon him. He became a foul mouthed Scoffer at all good men and good things; and a great mocker of ChurchMembers in particular. The Vices of Drunkenness and Swearing and Lying made the Characters of his Conversation. Sabbath-Breaking and Promise-breaking, made him infamous among honest people, and his Disobedience to his Parents was not unequal to the rest of his miscarriages. Original Sin, in the furthest efforts of it, filled his whole man, and his whole way, for half an hundred years; at which age he left the world; and he had sat under & sinned against the means of Grace all this while. But yet, which you will admire to hear! Yet this enormous liver was judged to be converted unto God some few weeks before he died, The great God so blessed & owned the Ministry which he enjoyed, that the Efficacy of it on him, became conspicuous to Astonishment. He became a serious Penitent, and so devout, so pensive, that every one saw a New-Creature in him. He mourned for all his former faults, and caused his Complaints to reach unto the Plague of his Heart as the Root ⟨p. 11⟩of all. He reformed what was amiss in him, and applied himself with an exceeding Vigour to the Saviour, for the Salvation of his soul. While the Grace of God was thus beginning its Impressions on him, he fell mortally sick, and it was not long before he passed out of this world with a marvellous Assurance of his Interest in a better.
There dwelt at a Village in this Countrey, one who dyed in December 1688. This man had been remarkable for his bad Life, till he had spent fifty years in the lewd and rude Courses of notorious Ungodliness. Though he had the Benefit