N01608:58
The valley of Hinnom. The terrors of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping…The valley of Hinnom. The terrours of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping…
The valley of Hinnom. The terrors of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping the terrible miseries of the punishments on the wicked there, declared. In a sermon preached in the hearing, and at the request, of a man under a sentence of death for a murder; just before the execution of the sentence; and upon a text by himself assigned for the sermon to insist upon. At Boston, 13.d. IV.m. 1717, : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]The valley of Hinnom. The terrours of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping the terrible miseries of the punishments on the wicked there, declared. In a sermon preached in the hearing, and at the request, of a man under a sentence of death for a murder; just before the execution of the sentence; and upon a text by himself assigned for the sermon to insist upon. At Boston, 13.d. IV.m. 1717, : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by J. Allen for Robert Starke, 1717
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I Consider my self as a dying Man, and I desire to dye giving Glory to God, before whom I am now to make my Appearance. I offer up my Praises unto God who has granted me such a space of Repentance, and so many helps and means to bring me to it.
I hope, the Faithful Servants of God, will with some comfort see ⟨p. 2⟩some Harvest of the great pains they have taken for my Good.
To all the other Sins of a Wicked Life, I have added this; That I have too much delayed my Repentance, even since my Imprisonment, while the Sentence against my evil work, was not yet certain to be Executed. Though I have hereby so affronted and provoked the good Spirit of Grace, that He might justly withdraw for ever from me, yet such has been his Free and Rich Grace, as to continue still to visit me with his Influences; and bring on a work of Repentance in my Soul.
I heartily mourn for all the Sins of my Life; and above all for the Fountain of all Sins, which I have in an Heart that is desperately wicked. I most particularly confess and bewail my Blood-Guiltiness. I owe my Life to Justice, for having wrongfully taken away the Life of my Brother, whom I ought to have loved as my self. I own the Justice of the Government in their Proceeding against me. But, Lord, there is Forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.