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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50229	A sermon, occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder, preached at Boston in N.E., March 11th, 1685/6 (together with the confession, last expressions, & solemn warning of the murderer to all persons, especially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end) / by Increase Mather ...	Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697. Exhortation to a condemned malefactor.	1687 (1687)	Wing M1248; ESTC W19800	66,053	133

for being wicked over much There is hardly any sort of Wickedness which you have not wallowed in-That sin particularly which you are now to die for is a most monstrous Crime I can't possibly describe or declare the sins whereby you have made your self an astonishing Example of Impiety punishment Mor. O Sir I have bin a most hellish sinner I am sorry for what I have bin Min. Sorry you say well tell me which of all your sins you are now most sorry for which lyes most heavy Mor. I hope I am sorry for all my sins but I must especially bewail my neglect of the means of grace On Sabbath dayes I us'd to lye at home or be ill imploy'd elsewhere when I should have bin at Church This has undone me Min. And let me seriously tell you Your Despiseing of Christ is a most dreadful sin indeed You have for whole years together had the Call of Jesus Christ to seek an Interest in him you would now give all the world for that interest but you would take no notice of him The Jews of Old put him to a worse death than yours will be this afternoon and by your contempt of Christ you have said the Jews did well to do so How justly might he now Laugh at your Calamity And for these sins of yours besides the direful woes plagues that have already come upon you you are now expos'd unto the Vengeance of eternal fire You are in danger of being now quickly cast into those exquisite amazing Torments in comparison of which the anguishes which your body ever did feel or shall feel before night or can ever feel are just nothing at all and these dolorous torments are such as never have an End as many sands as could lie between this earth the Stars in Heaven would not be near so many as the Ages the end-less Ages of these Torments Mor. But is there not Mercy for me in Christ Min. Yes and its a wonderful thing that I have now further to tell you Mind I entreat you The SON of GOD is become the Son of Man the Lord Jesus Christ is both God man in one Person he is both sufficiently able willing also to be your Saviour He lived a most righteous life and this was that such as you I might be able to say before God Lord accept of me as if I had liv'd righteously He died at length a most cursed death and this was that we might be able to say unto God Lord let not me die for sin since thy Son has died in my room This glorious Redeemer is now in the highest heaven pleading with God for the Salvation of His chosen ones And He pours out his Spirit continually upon them that do believe on him might you then be enabled by his grace to carry your poor guilty condemned enslaved ignorant soul unto Jesus Christ and humbly put your trust in him for deliverance from the whole bad state which you are brought into Oh then his voice is to you the same that was to the penitent Thief This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Mor. Oh that I might be so Sir I would hear more of these things I think I can't better fit my self for my death than by hearkning to these things Min. Attend then The never-dying spirit that lodges within you must now within a few minutes appear before the Tribunal of the Great GOD in what or in whose Righteousness will you then appear will you have this to be your Plea Lord I experienced many good Motions Desires in my soul many Sorrows for my sin before I dy'd or will you expect to have no other Plea but This Lord I am vile but thy Son is a Surety for the worst of sinners that believe in him for his sake alone have MERCY on me Morg. I thank God for what He has wrought in my Soul Min. But be very careful about this matter if you build on your own good Affections instead of Jesus Christ the only Rock if you think they shall recommend you to God He that made you will not have mercy on you Mor. I would be clothed with the Righteousness of JESUS CHRIST Min But you can't sincerely desire that Christ should justify you if you don 't also desire that He should sanctify you those 2 alwaies go together Is evry lust that has hitherto had possession of your heart become so loathsom to you that it would fill your soul with joy to hear Jesus Christ say I will subdue those Iniquities of thine I will make a holy heavenly a spiritually minded person of thee Mor. I would sin against God no more Min. But I must deal plainly with you You have made it sadly suspicious that your repentance is not yet as it ought to be when men truly throughly repent of sin they use to be in a special manner watchful against that Sin which has bin their chief Sin one of your principal sins which has indeed brought you to the Death of a Murderer is Passion unmortifi'd outragious Passionateness Now I have been this day informed that no longer since than the last night upon some Dissatisfaction about the place which the Authority hath ordered you by and by to be buried in you did express your self with a most unruly Passionateness Mor. Sir I confess it and I was quickly sorry for it tho' for the present I was too much disturbed 'T was my folly to be so careful about the place where my body should be laid when my precious SOUL was in such a Condition Min. Truly you have cause to mourn for it Secure the welfarre of your soul and this now pinion'd hang'd vile body of yours will shortly be raised unto glory glory forevermore And let me put you in mind of one thing more I doubt you han't yet laid aside your unjust Grudges against the Persons concerned in your Conviction Condemnation You have no cause to complain of them and you are not fit to pray much less are you fit to dye till you heartily wish them as well as your own soul if you die malicious you die miserable Mor. I heartily wish them all well I bear Ill-will to none What a lamentable thing is this Ah this is that which has brought me hither Min. What do you mean Mor. I over-heard a man mocking scoffing at me when I stumbled just now he does very ill I have done so my self I have mock'd scoff'd like that man and see what it hath brought me to he may come to the like Min. The Lord forgive that foolish hard-hearted creature But be not too much disturbed Mor. Yonder I am now come in sight of the place where I must immediately end my dayes Oh what a huge Multitude of people is come together on this occasion O Lord O Lord I pray thee to make my Death profitable to all this Multitude of People that they may not sin

take heed of those sins as they love their Lives or Souls I know not but that it may be for Edisieation and tend to God's Glory if I should read in this great Assembly what I received in Writing from this dying distressed Creature It s this which followeth I James Morgan being Condemned to dye must needs own to the glory of God that He is righteous and that I have by my sins provoked Him to destroy me before my time I have bin a great sinner guilty of Sabbath-breaking of Lying and of Uncleanness but there are especially two Sins whereby I have offended the great God one is that Sin of Drunkenness which has caused me to commit many other Sins for when in Drink I have been often guilty of Cursing and Swearing and quarrelling and striking others But the Sin which lies most heavy upon my Conscience is that I have despised the Word of God and many a time refused to hear it preached For these things I beleeve God has left me to that which has brought me to a shameful miserable death I do therefore beseech warn all persons young men especially to take heed of these Sins lest they provoke the Lord to do to them as He has justly done by me And for the further peace of my own Conscience I think my self obliged to add this unto my foregoing Confession That I own the Sentence which the Honoured Court has pass'd upon me to be exceeding just in as much as tho I had no former Grudge and Malice against the man whom I have killed yet my Passion at the time of the Fact was so out-ragious as that it hurrâ—â—d me on to the doing of that which makes me justly now proceeded against as a Murderer Thus does this miserable man confess But how many are there in the Congregation that this may strike terror trembling into their souls O Lord how many are there in this great Assembly who have lived and do live in those very sins for which this Man confesseth that God has been provoked to destroy him Let sinners hear take warning this day This man now that the Terrors of God have awakned his soul bitterly complains of two Sins especially one is that of Drunkenness And indeed Drunkenness has bin a bloody sin it has bin the cause of many a Murder The man here who is now flying to the Pit confesseth that in his Drink he was wont to Curse Swear and to quarrel and strike those near him and he acknowledged to me that he had made himself grievously drunk the day before he was left of God to commit the Murder which he now must dye for yea and that he had that very night bin drinking to excess and that he was not clear of drink at the time when he did the bloody Fact. And does not the Scripture say Who has wo who has sorrow who has contentions who has babling who has wounds without cause They that tarry long at the Wine c. Prov. 23. 29 30. Wicked men when they are in drink will fall to Quarrelling words will bring on blows and those blows will cause wounds and those wounds may perhaps prove mortal and then what Woe Sorrow followes O how many have by means of this sin been guilty of Interpretative Murder â— They have caused others to dye by making them drunk There has been an horrible thing done in this place some wicked persons who they are God knows have given or sold strong Liquors to the Indians and made them drunk also and several of them have dyed in that condition Let such know that the Lord will judg them yea He will judg 'em as Men that have shed blood shall be judged they must answer for the blood of Souls and Bodyes too Most wicked and miserable Creatures they are that to gain a few pence will bring upon themselvs the guilt of the blood of Souls of Bodies too And this bloody sin of Drunkenness has bin the cause of many a Self-Murder how many have made themselvs the woful Martyrs of Bacchus thereby By Drunkenness Intemperance they have brought their Bodies to the Grave and their Souls to Hell before their time It is an unhappy thing that of later years a kind of Strong â€ Reverend Mr Wilson once said in a Sermon there is a sort of drink come into the country which is called Kill Devil but it should be call'd Kill men for the Devil Drink kath been common amongst us which the poorer sort of people both in Town Country can make themselves drunk with â—â— cheap easy rates They that are poor and wicked too Ah most miserable Creatures can for a peny or two pence make themselvs drunk I wish to the Lord some remedy might be thought of for the prevention of this evil It 's a very sad thing that so many Bodyes Souls should be eternally ruin'd and no help for it How few are there that if once they be addicted to â—his vice do ever truly repent of it or turn from it There was a Man who hearing that his Son took evil courses and that he followed such a vice well said he I hope he 'll leave that and that he was given to another vice I hope said he he 'll leave that too but it was told him that his Son was given to Drunkenness also Nay then said he I have no hope of him I will not say as he did There is no hope that ever a Drunkard should repent but I say there have been but few such Instances in the world How rarely have any of you known a man that has been addicted to this Body-destroying and Soul-murdering Iniquity that has truly repented of it or turned from it again O then Let Men that have any love for their Lives or Souls beware of this bloody Sin. But the other Evil which this undone Man does especially cry out of and which now that he seeth his Soul going into Eternity he saith lies most heavy upon his Conscience is his Despising the Word of God. I do not wonder to hear him speak so for I have known several Condemned persons who have made the same out-cry O nothing terrifies our Consciences like the thought of This that we have neglected the Means of grace And what think you of Sinners in Hell who are wayling for this with tears of blood for ever ever whose doleful and bitter cry is O the Sermons which we once heard or might have heard but would not Ten Thousand worlds would we give for an opportunity to hear one of those Sermons again with any hope of finding Mercy with God. O you that have lived under the Gospel but despised it think of this Verily I say unto you all the sins in the world will not damn like this Suppose a man to have bin guilty of Adultry or Murder or the most horrid Transgressions against the Law of God these will not damn his Soul

an affront put upon his Imperial Majesty so he that shall kill a man that is made after the Image of God puts a Contempt upon the DIVINE Majesty there is Treason against God contained in the bloody Bowels of this Sin. Upon this account it is indeed a greater sin to kill a good man that has the Image of God renewed in him than to kill a wicked man. Nevertheless that also is a Capital Crime for all men have something (e) Calvin Rivet Pareus in Gen. 9. 6. of Gods Image remaining in them not only in that every man has an immortal soul and is in that respect more like the immortal God than any other creature in the world and in that men have a dominion over the Creatures which is one part of Gods Image on that account does the Apostle say that Man is the Image and Glory of God. 1. Cor. 11 7. But also in that the Law is written in the hearts of men by Nature (f) Ames Theol. lib. 1. cap. 14. though God has executed spiritual death upon Mankind for Adam's Apostasy after a dreadful manner yet he has moderated that punishment hence men in a natural estate yet close with some practical principles of Piety Righteousuess as That God ought to be worshiped that Men should do as they would be done by and the like and many natural men yet have an image of Vortue they have something like Grace a shadow of it they hate flagitious Crimes and approve of a morally honest Conversation These things shew that there are some Remainders of the Image of God in men therefore he that shall murder such a creature is worthy of death But thus for the Doctrinal handling of the Truth before us I proceed to make some Application 1. By way of Information 2. For Exhortation Infor. 1. This Doctrin justifyeth the Authority here in respect of the Sentence of Death which has been passed on the Murderer who is this day to be Executed There is a man standing before the Lord and among His people this day who has done just as my Text expresseth he hath smitten his Neighbour and that with an Instrument of lorn too with a cruel Spit made of Iron the thing proved by several Witnesses and the man that was hurt dyed of that wound therfore he that has smitten him is a Murderer and must surely be put to death Tho' for a long time he denied it nevertheless since his Condemnation he has acknowledged it and yesterday he confessed to me that he had in his Rage murdered the man whose death and blood has bin laid to his Charge he told me that the other gave him some ill language whereby he was provoked and that he said to him if he came within the door he would run the Spit into his Bowels and he was as wicked as he said he would be so that he is guilty of Murder Therefore none ought to blame Those in Authority for causing the Murderer to be put to death Conscience to God to the People under their Charge and to their own Souls also has necessitated them to do what they have done in this matter Let every one remember that Scripture Prov. 28. 17. A man that doth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the Pit let no man stay him if he has shed blood to the Pit let him go and flee thither let all convenient Speed be used in the Execution of Justice that so the Land may be cleared from blood and let no man in Authority stay him let no private person solicit for him But let us be thankful to God that we are under such Magistrates as will do Justice and Execute Judgment punish Sin according as the Word of God requires that it should be done Infor. 2. Hence Those Things which have a tendency to and a degree of Murder in them must needs be evil e. g. Rash sinful Anger is an evil thing Murder begins there 'T was said of those Brethren in Iniquity Simeon Levi That Instruments of Cruelty were in their habitations for in their Anger they slew a man cursed be their wrath for it was cruel Gen. 49. 5. 6. And ouâ— Lord Jesus Christ in His Exposition of the Sixth Commandment shews that rash Anger is a degree of Murder Mat. 5. 21 22. You have heard that it was said by them of old time Ye shall not kill and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the Judgement but I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the Judgment There is Man's Judgment-seat and GOD's Judgment-seat Murder makes a man be in danger of the former sinful Anger exposes him to the latter Not that all Anger is sinful there is an â—nger that is good when a man is angry in God's cause moved with zeal indignation because God is dishonoured that 's very good and a man may sometimes be angry in his own cause too and yet not sin Be angry and sin not But when men are angry without a just cause that 's Evil. When they are angry more than they have cause for that they are all in a flame for a meer trisâ—e when as one well expresses it a man shall suffer the (g) v. Mâ— Câ—â—â—ocks Supplement cap. 9. p. 368. Becoâ— of his soul to be sit all on â—ire at the landing of every small Boat that 's a foolish and evil thing or when men shall be angry longer than they ought to be an implacable spirit is a vile murderous spirit Anger rests in the bosom of sools Sinful Anger is poysâ—â— which as soon as ever a man has taken it into his mouth he shall spit it out again And when Anger shall break out into Curses and wicked Imprecations that 's wicked Anger This condemned man that stands here confesses that he was wont in his passion to curse all near him He murdered many a man with his bloody tongue before he was left of God to murder any with his hand His mouth was full of Cursing Bitterness before he shed blood And when men in their Rarge imprecate curse themselvs it s a very evil thing there are some that will say They wish they might be hang'd if such a thing be so and many times the righteous Judgment of God brings that very evil upon 'em There is a Printed Relation concerning (h) Sr. Gerv. Elways mention'd by Mr. Howel in his Londinop by Mr. Ball of the power of Godliness l. 4. c. 3. p. 329. by Mr. Leigh in his Body of Divinity Lib. 4. Cap. 16. P. 445. a Person of Quality that was hang'd for a Crime laid to his charge and when he came to dye he confessed that he had been much addicted to that sinful Recreation of Card-Playing and that many times when the Game went otherwise than he wish'd for he would in his passion wish that he might he

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