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Tremenda. The dreadful sound with which the wicked are to be thunderstruck
Tremenda. The dreadful sound with which the wicked are to be thunderstruck. : In a sermon delivered unto a great assembly, in which was present, a miserable African, just going to be executed for a most inhumane and uncommon murder. At Boston, May 25th. 1721. : To which is added, a conference between a minister and the prisoner, on the day before his execution. : [One line from Deuteronomy]
Boston: printed by B. Green for B. Gray & J. Edwards, 1721
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Jos. Never till she told me, that she had as lieu talk with the Devil, as talk with any of GODS Ministers. This was, but a little before I did the Fact. At last the Devil putting it into my Heart, in the Night, I took my Axe, and with the Head of it, I knocked her down; and that she might not recover, I gave her the second Blow. After this, I put her to Bed, and hackled her Throat with a Razor: So I left her, and went and called the Neighbours; and told them, I was afraid of my Wives making away with her self. But GOD has now brought me out.
Jos. Never till she told me, that she had as liev talk with the Devil, as talk with any of GODS Ministers. This was, but a little before I did the Fact. At last the Devil putting it into my Heart, in the Night, I took my Ax, and with the Head of it, I knock'd her down; and that she might not recover, I gave her the second Blow. After this, I put her to Bed, and hackled her Throat with a Razour: So I left her, and went and call'd the Neighbours; and told them, I was afraid of my Wifes making away with her self. But GOD has now brought me out.
Min. 'Tis time for you, not only to be sensible of this horrid Crime, and the Cry of Blood in the Ears of Heaven against you: But also to come into some Sense of all your other Sins. You have broken all the Commandments of GOD. You must now Examine your self by what your Catechism tells you, is Forbidden and ⟨p. 35⟩Required in the Commandments. And Judge and Loath your self, in the view of what you have done; so many Thousands of Times, Denying the GOD that is Above, and Hearkening to the Devil more than to GOD, and Exposing your self to all the Evil that Pursueth Sinners ▪ Yea, procuring of Plagues upon all about you. But then, be sure to lay to Heart, the Fountain of all Sin in the Heart that you brought into the World with you; an Heart that is desperately Wicked, and the Mother of Abominations. What must you think, that you deserve at the Hands of the Glorious GOD, whom you have so affronted and offended?