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A45669	Gods revenge against murther containing the confessions, prayers, discourses, and last dying sayings of Mr. Edward Harrison, who was try'd, convicted, and deservedly sentenced the sixth and ninth of this instant April, 1692. for the late unheard of murther of Dr. Clench; and accordingly executed in Holborn, on Friday the fifteenth following. Licensed according to order.	Harrison, Henry, d. 1692.	1692 (1692)	Wing H890A; ESTC R216533	3,687	4

God's Revenge against Murther Containing the Confessions Prayers Discourses AND Last Dying Sayings OF Mr. Edward Harrison WHO WAS Try'd Convicted and deservedly Sentenced the Sixth and Ninth of this Instant April 1692. for the late unheard of Murther of Dr. Clench and accordingly Executed in Holbourn on Friday the Fifteenth following Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10.12 Licensed according to Order SECT I. Containing serious Advice to all those Young Gentlemen and others whose Vitious Extravagancy and Debauchery make them the Prodigy of the Age especially such as were Mr. Harrison's Acquaintance and were Spectators of his Execution SIRS YOU that were Mr. Harrison's Friends and Acquaintance and without Reflection let me add sometimes perhaps Companions in Riot and Extravagancy you whose Vitious Practices have first prevail'd to make you wish there were no future State of Reward or Punishment and farther Continuance in Sin so scar'd your Consciences stupified your Understandings and degraded your Reasons As with the Food in the Psalmist To say in your Hearts there is no God Here by this late Sad Example you may behold how Empty and Idle how Pernicious and Frightful how Loathsome and Detestable such Conceits appear when once Serious Apprehensions of Death approach opening the Self Blinded Eyes of the Soul and taking off those Vain Imaginations which the Depravity of Nature the inconsiderateness of Youth the madness of Wine or a Proud Fantastick Humour of Singularity have raised and which tend no less to the Disturbance and Distraction of Humane Society in general than in the particular Ruin and Destraction as well Temporal as Eternal of all these that suffer themselves to be infatuated by them There is not certainly a more effectual Way to revive the Drooping Spirit of Christian Religion in the World than seriously to contemplate upon and consider our Latter End that we must shortly dye and come to Judgment and then receive a Reward according to our Deeds If we were possess'd with a warm and constant Sense of these things we should in all probability endeavour to walk circumspectly not as Fools but as Wise to be Holy in all manner of Conversation Such is the Advantage of a Religious Consideration Alass were there but mature Thoughts would but Men be wrought upon to act as reasonable Creatures would they but juniciously and soberly weigh things in the Balance of their Understandings they would s●ldom or never be found wanting in their Duty and Obligation If Men would once entertain serious Thoughts of Religion they would soon set open their Ears to its sweet and charming Language if they would but fix their Eyes upon it they would soon be captivated with its incomparable Beauty it would presently attract their Love and Admiration and enforce them to imbrace it with all profound Respect and Affection A Consideration of our Latter End a Serious Reflection upon Eternity this would put the Soul in such a Frame and Posture as would make it wrestless and uneasy wrack'd and impatient till it had made his Peace with an incensed Judge by Repentance not to be repented of 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 prepar'd it self for a comfortable Appearance at his Bar for a glorious Advancement into an endless State of Bliss and Immortality Such is the great Advantage of Considering our Latter End Oh that they were wise that they understood this that they would conside● their Latter End Now the Four last things to be continually remembred are Death a Judgment to come Hell and Caelestial Glory And what more horribly than Death What more torrible than such a Judgment What more intollerable than Eterna● Fire And what worthier Object can there be for us to exert our Faculties upon than God and the Mansions of Everlasting Felic●ty How many Sins might we haVe avoided in the course of our Lives if we had the serious Remembrance and Apprehension of these things And how many Sins might we yet avoid if we would but endeavour to have these things as Belshazard's Hand Writing against the Wall constantly in our Eye These things as the Pilat the Ship would direct and influence our whole Life and Conversation would help us to steer our Course and safely bring us to the Haven of Bliss and Happiness such would be the great Advantage of considering our Latter End If Men would but thus consider no temptation would then take hold of them nothing would ruffle and discompose their Conscience it would be void of Offence both towards God and towards Men. But alass In this laps●d and degenerate Age in this miserable and naughty World how many are there that have languish'd luke-warm and Feeble Opinions of Religion If Judgment may be formed according to their Vicious and Immortal Conversation what a Deluge of Prophaness and Impiety Ath●ism and Infedelity overflows this Sinful Land this poor Nation How many live as tho' they believed that Vertue and Vice that God and the Devil were Words signifying nothing as if they were the extract of some Melancholly and Pregnant Brain as if they were invented mearly for Mens Terror and Affrightment The Halter the Gibbet and the most terrible of Temporal Punish●●●●s to have as little Influence upon Mens Lives makes as small an Impression upon the Minds of Men as those which which are Eternal How many have suffered as Murtherers as Thieves as Evil-doers And yet Men will not take Warning and Example Men will not be deterred from Committing the like abominable vile and enormous Offences Every Sessions gives us too many fresh and sad Instances of this Truth O that Men would become Wife and consider not only Temporal but Eternal Punishments Such a Consideration would if any thing oblige them to follow the important Business of Religion To hu●t no Body by Word or Deed to keep their Hands from shedding Innocent Blood and from Picking and Stealing Such a Consideration would enforce them to labour truly to get their own Living an to do their duty in that Station which Divine Providence hath allotted to them SECT II. Containing his Behaviour in Prison and a● the Place of Execution with his Conference with Dr. H and several other Divines ON Wednesday January the 6th Mr. Harrison was seized in White Fryers by a Warrent from the L●rd Chief Justice Holt and committed to Newgate for the Murther of Dr. Clench where he continued till the 6th Instant on which said Day being brought to the Old Baily he was there arraigned and tryed for the wilful Murther of the said Doctor where upon hearing the full Evidence he was found Guilty Before his Tryal and Conviction he was not so much affected with the Thoughts of another World but being now under a Sentence of Death he began to consider of his Latter End and by the Christian Charity of many Divines particularly the the Reverend Dr. H He was much assisted by their Spiritual Comfort and Advice Yet all they could do while in Newgate could not perswade him to a

Confession of the Murther saying that no Person could possibly prove it upon him He was told that his Conscience was Ten Thousand Witnesses and that if he did not confess it before he Dyed being concious of it there could not be any Hopes of his Salvation he was told that he should take heed how he falsly appealed to the Heart searching God for this would aggravate his Guilt He often declar'd that he had been a very great Sinner and deserved this and Ten times worse Punishment from God and did expect no less than Death and therefore was willing to prepare for it On Sunday the 10th Instant the Ordinary read Prayers and Preached a Sermon to the Condemned Malefactors in the Chapple where Mr. Harrison attended and was very attentive seeming very much affected with th●se Preparity Exercises for his Death but after the Sermon was ended and before Mr. Ordinary began his last Prayer Mr. Harrison spoke to him and said he had made a good Discourse and that as to what related to Blood guiltiness if any one of Dr. Clench's Murtherers were there they could not but be tauched the Heart and be forced to a genuine Confession or Words to that Effect And now good Reader we come to the last Acts of Moments of unhappy Mr. Edward Harrison who pursuant to the Sentence he received in the Old Baily was this Day about the Hour of Eleven carried from Newgate to Holbourn against Furnivals-Inn where a Gibbet was Erected for his Execution before he was turned off he Prayed a considerable Time by himself The PRAYER during the Time of his Imprisonment before his Execution OH most dreadful God for the Passion of thy Son I beseech Thee to give a sinful and miserable Wretch leave to prostrate himself before the Throne of thy Crace and implore that Mercy which I have formerly despised and abused I am not Worthy I confess to lift up my Eyes towards Heaven for I have fallen from Thee by mine Iniquities and am by Nature the Son of Death and a Thousand fold more the Child of Hell by my Wicked Practises and it becomes me in the greatest dejection of Spirit to Sigh and Groan under the load of my Sins which have been so great and many so bold so presumptuous and shameless that when with an awakened Mind I reflect upon them I am ready to sink into Hell and despair of any Mercy but of thy infinite Grace thou hast promised Mercy to me in Christ if I will turn to Thee with all my heart Therefore upon the Call of the Gospel I am now come in and throwing down my Weapons submit my self to thy Mercy And because Thou requirest as the condition of my Peace with Thee that I should put away my Idols and be at defiance with all Thine Enemies whom I acknowled I have wickedly sided with against Thee I do here from the bottom of my heart renounce them all O that I could hate and abhor them more than that Death which I expect very shortly to Suffer for them Bestow on me O Lord that ingenuous and godly Sorrow which worketh Repentance and unfeigned purposes of amendment of life They come too late indeed I may justly think to find acceptance with Thee and therefore not without fear and trembling and a great sense of my undeservings I look up unto Thee acknowledging Thy infinite Goodness if thou wilt vouchsafe me but the smallest hope of Mercy Strengthen me good Lord in the hour of Death that I may not fall through the Temptations of Satan but receive me through the Merits of thy only Son and my alone Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS