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A76061	A murderer punished and pardoned, or, A true relation of the wicked life, and shameful-happy death of Thomas Savage imprisoned, justly condemned, and twice executed at Ratcliff, for his bloody fact in killing his fellow-servant, on Wednesday, Octob. 28, 1668 / by us who were often with him in the time of his imprisonment in Newgate, at at his execution, Robert Franklin, Thomas Vincent, Thomas Doolitel, James Janeway, Hugh Baker ; to which is annexed a sermon preached at his funeral.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.; Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.; Franklin, Robert, 1630-1684.	1679 (1679)	Wing A997A; ESTC R42788	47,969	54

their age Or if you please That it highly concerns young men to flee youthful lusts It 's no cowardise to flee from sin In the prosecution of this Doctrine I shall shew 1. What are the common sins of young people 2. What it is to flee from Youthful lusts 3. Why they should flee from Youthful Lusts 4. I shall apply it I shall name some of those sins which young ones are subject to First Young people are very apt to be disobedient to their Parents or Masters O how great a rarity is it to see young people as ready to obey as their Parents are to command Most children are children of Belial that is without a yoak Let Parents command advise nay intreat all 's to little purpose How ready are they to break the bond which God and Nature lay upon them to dutifulness Though the Command of God be plain enough though his Threatnings are terrible and though this sin seldom goes unpunished in this life yet Children take little or no notice of them One would think that one Scripture should scare them Prov. 30. 17. The eye that mocketh at his Father and despiseth to obey his Mother the Ravens of the Valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it What is the English of that why they shall come to an untimely end Have not the sad complaints of many at Tiburn sufficiently demonstrated this to be true Have not many cryed out with a Halter about their neck Children if you value your lives and souls take heed of disobeying your Parents That was the sin which brought me to this untimely and shameful end 2. Another youthful sin is Lying Poor Children quickly learn this Lesson of their Father the Devil It is not without good reason that the Psalmist Psal 58. 3. gives such a Character of wicked Children which went astray from the womb telling lyes and the older they grow the more skil'd they be in this devilish art it 's likely they are ignorant that it is a sin that cuts the bonds of all society it may be they are told how dear Ananias and Sapphira paid for one lye Act. 5. 3. nay though the word of truth tell them more than once That Lyars must dwell with their Father the Devil in that black Prison Hell though they hear of a Lake of Fire and Brimstone that burns for ever Rev. 2. 18. and that such as they are must be cast into it yet for all this they 'l venture still 3. Sabbath-breaking is another youthful sin O how little do most of the young people of this City mind the sanctifying of the Sabbath Doth not the multitude of Apprentices and Children that wander up and down Moorefields on the Lord's Day speak this to be too true they dare not make bold with their Masters time on the Week-days but as for God's Day That they spend as if God had set apart one day in the week for young People to sleep drink and play in they dare as well eat a piece of their fingers almost as to do that on another day which they do then and the truth of it is they look upon the displeasure of a dying man as terrible but the Anger of a holy God they make light of O little do they think what precious time that is their Souls are naked and they then may have Cloathing they are starving and they may then have Food the Market is then open Provisions for Eternity may then be had But O prodigious Madness the hearts of most young ones speak in this language As for Christ Heaven and Soul let them go we have better things to think on more weighty matters to mind And it is true indeed O young man what is the company of vain wretches like thy self the wanton embraces of a whorish woman the turning off thy Cups and Damnation more needful than the hearing of Sermons than Praying and reading and Salvation Sure you should not alwaies be of that mind O little do you imagine how dear you shall pay for all the pleasures you have on the Sabbath out of Gods House This this was THE SIN which lay like a load upon the Soul of this poor Young man The profaning of the Sabbath that was the bane of him This carried him out of Gods way into the Devils quarters O how bitterly did he bemoan himself for this sin as the cause of all the rest Of said he when I should have been begging the life of my soul I was plotting the death of my soul and body too Did none of you stand by the Cart when he wept so bitterly and cryed to the Lord to forgive this great and dreadful sin Did none of you hear how earnestly he begged of you to have a care of that sin as you loved your lives and souls O wretch said he that I was I studied how I might spend the Lords day in the devils wo●● I thought I could never dishonour God enough and that time that I should have served God most in I did most for Satan● in them then I play'd my mad pranks I went into the Church indeed sometimes but I may speak it with shame and deep sorrow now I never heard one whole Sermon all the while I was with my Master and indeed I laugh'd at those that spent the Sabbath in ●●aring of Sermons and praying and looked upon them as the ver●●●t fools in the world I was glad when the Sabbath came that I might have time to run to my vile comrades I rejoyced that I could then go to satisfie my cursed lusts with whorish women O! tell young men from me That the breaking of the Sabbath is a costly dangerous sin Sirs the substance of this Sermon I received from his mouth and will you not believe a dying man Do you think he did but jest 'T was on the Sabbath day he went to a Whore 't was on the Sabbath he robbed his Master and 't was on the Sabbath that he killed the Maid But because this sin is Epidemical I leave a short story with you and desire you to think of it and then if you like what follows break the Sabbath still The story is this A dear friend of mine was preaching about the sanctifying of the Sabbath and had occasion to make mention of that man that by the special command of God was stoned to death for gathering sticks upon the Sabbath-day Whereupon one of the Congregation stood up and laughed and made all the hast he could out of the Church and went to gathering of sticks though he had no need of them but when the people came from the Sermon they found this man stark dead with the bundle of Sticks in his arms lying in the Church-Porch And yet for all this there stands a young man in that corner that makes nothing of idling away the Sabbath and there sits another that minds not the Lord's Day except it be to get into wicked company and take

especially as they were against a good and gracious God according to Psal 51. 4. and Luk. 15. 8. 2. He was deeply sensible of and grieved for the corruption of his heart from whence his actual sins did proceed according to Psal 51. 5. 3. He mourned over his back-slidings because God was thereby dishonoured 4. He found it hard to believe yet professed he would roll himself and relie upon the merits of Christ alone for salvation and if he perished he would perish there 5. He was much in a little time in duty yet did profess himself he saw the insufficiency of them to justifie or save him according to Phil. 3. 9. 6. He made choice of Christ before all before life it self according to Phil. 3. 8. 7. He longed for the morning when he was to dye because he desired to be with Christ according to Ph. 1. 23. 8. He greatly loved God because much was forgiven him according to Luk. 7. 47. And said though God should damn him yet he could and would love God 9. He loved the company of Gods People and professed he had rather be with Gods People in Prison with Bread and Water than with the ungodly with liberty and greatest dainties according to 1 Jo. 3. 14. 10. He blessed God that ever he was taken and imprisoned thinking it better to be in chains and brought to dye than to go on in sin 11. He was most broken and melted for his sins when those that came to visit him were gone from him and not in their presence when hypocrites mourn before others and are less affected when alone yet this was sometimes his trouble lest God should lose the glory of the work he had wrought in him This was observed by one that was usually with him when others went from him 12. He wept for joy at that time when he could not find that God loved him that he was not cursing and swearing and singing against God as others did and he himself formerly 13. He found and tasted more sweetness in the ways of God in praying and mourning for sin than ever he found in the commission of sin 14. He accounted sin to be worse than hell 15. He had a spirit of Prayer given to him so plentifully that it was an astonishment to many that joyned sometimes with him considering how ignorant he was a little before according to Act. 9. 11. For behold he prayeth 16. He looked upon the loss of God more than the torments of hell and feared it more 17. He prized heaven because there he should sin no more These were his own expressions and what we observed that were frequently with him and Reader do thou pray and watch that thou mayst not be guilty of this young mans sins but pray and labour that thou mightest obtain the like evidences for heaven A Relation of what passed in the imprisonment and at the Execution of Hannah Blay H. B. belonged to a bawdy-house in Ratcliff where T. S. used to frequent and was always welcome so long as his money lasted his money being gone H. B. presently puts him upon robbing of his master which he could not easily accomplish by reason of the diligence of the servant-maid and to murther the maid rather than fail of getting money which he accordingly did and goes again to H. B. and tells her what he had done then flies but the justice of God pursued him so fast that he was soon apprehended and committed to Newgate After he had accused H. B. for putting him upon the murder she was apprehended and committed also At the Sessions she was indicted and condemned for being accessary to the murder committed by T. S. In the time of her imprisonment she was very rude and debauched being seldom sober except at such times when she could not by no means procure drink to be drunk withal She often endeavoured for to make T. S. drunk with her which she once or twice effected and endeavoured very much to draw him off from his Repentance by driving his old trade of sin and wickedness if any advised her to Repentance and to take care for the future estate of her soul she would laugh at them and reply in some such language as she had learned in the devils School with which she was well stored She was from that Sessions reprieved till the next fully perswading her self she should escape that bout and spending her time according to her former course of living taking as little care what should become of her Soul as though she had never offended a gracious God and as if there was no devil to torment her nor Hell to be tormented in but now Sessions being again come and she again brought down to the Sessions-house in the Old-Baley had sentence to be executed at Ratcliff where the Fact was committed The night before her execution the Ordinary of Newgate came to administer the Sacrament to her which she refused saying she could not dye in charity with some whom she named judging them the cause of her second judgment and Execution The next day being Friday Feb. 26. she was conveyed in a Cart from Newgate to the place of Execution where she ended her wicked life by a shameful death without the least sign of sorrow or repentance for her abominable whoredoms and wickedness 2 TIM 2 22. Flee also Youthful Lusts I Am come this day to speak to you in the name of a dying man and dyings mens words should leave living-affections and lasting-impressions upon the hearts of the Hearers Nay that which is infinitely more I am come to speak to you in the Name of the living God and therefore I beseech you be serious remember that we are not now about a laughing-business it is no less than for lives and Souls and for all that I know as you demean your selves now it may fare with you to all Eternity and if that will make you mind what I say the more know this That what I shall now speak is but a Comment upon what was yesterday delivered in brief from one that was in perfect health and in the Grave the same day And who knows whether there be not some here alive and in health that before to morrow morning shall be lumps of Clay and this the last Sermon that ever they shall hear Wherefore I beseech you sirs if you love the life of your souls hearken as if you expected to dye as soon as my sermon were ended The shortness of my time will give me leave to spend no time at all by way of reflection upon the Context but I shall immediately fall upon the words as they lye before us Flee youthful lusts In which you may observe 1. An Act Flee 2. The Object Lusts 3. The quality of the Object Youthful lusts The Doctrine that I shall take notice of from these words is this Doct. That it is the great duty of young people to be exceeding careful to avoid the sins which usually attend