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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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—He would break forth into very High Expressions; his great Comfort was fetched from that Promise in Mat. 11. 28. Come to Me—and I will give you rest. He would now cry out, O the Riches of Free-grace! There are thousands of thousands, & ten thousand times ten thousand, in the third Heaven, rejoicing over a great and an old sinner coming to Glory! O glorify […] ⟨p. 14⟩grace for ever.—He would say, O blessed Sickness, blessed sickness! what a friend hast thou been to me! and now Welcome Death! or Welcome Life, what my dearest Redeemer please. O that I could declare to my Relations and my Neighbours! yea that I could declare to Kings and Worlds what the Lord has done for my soul! —He would reflect on the Humiliation of the Lord Jesus Christ, with an amazed & a transported soul; he would break forth into a great Adoration of it, and say, O this wonderful mercy to undone sin•••rs! He would also make that one of his Admirations, O the glorious work of faith, which doth role it self on Christ alone! [He bewailed it with a peculiar Bitterness, That he had been for the change of Government. But he said, he believed that God would restore to us, the judges as at the first, & the counsellors as at the beginning, & pastors according to His own heart. He was likewise much concerned about the Interest of Christ in the world; & about the Success of the Prince of Orange, whose glorious Expedition we had then by the edges, a small notice of, he talked in strains that seemed surprisingly prophetical.] His counsel to every one was, To make their Calling & Election sure. And he would often say, O I am an old sinner & ⟨p. 15⟩but a young Convert! I am fifty years old, and have lived but seven weeks all this while.
—He would break forth into very High Expressions; his great Comfort was fetch'd from that Promise in Mat. 11. 28. Come to Me—and I will give you rest. He would now cry out, O the Riches of Free-grace! There are thousands of thousands, & ten thousand times ten thousand, in the third Heaven, rejoicing over a great and an old sinner coming to Glory! O glorify 〈…〉