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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02778	A dreadful warning for drunkards, or The execution and confession of Fabian Price, a souldier, who was executed at Tyburn, on Wednesday the tenth of the instant July; for murdering another souldier in the parish of Chiswick, in his drink. As also of James Smith, who was executed on Thursday the eleventh, at Hounslow Heath, for running away from his Colours. With the manner of their behavior in prison, and at the places of execution.		1678 (1678)	Wing D2154C; ESTC R174746	3,144	10

A DREADFUL WARNIN● FOR Drunkards OR THE EXECUTION AND CONFESSION OF Fabian Price a SOULDIER who wa● Executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the Tenth of th●● instant July for Murdering another Souldier in th● Parish of Chiswick in his Drink As also of James Smith who was Executed on Thursda● the Eleventh at Hounslow-Heath for Running away from his Colours With the manner of their Behaviour in Prison and a● the places of Execution With Allowance London Printed for D. M. 1673. A Dreadful Warning EOR DRUNKARDS AT the late Sessions holden for the City of London and County of Middlesex there were Five Persons received Sentence of Death three Men and two Women Of the Men one was for Murther another for a Rape or beastly abuse offer'd to a Child under ten years of Age and the third being a Soldier for running away from his Colours The two Women were condemned for several Robberies which they had long practised but by the Mercy of our ever Gracious Soveraign three of the five obtained the favour of a Reprieve The most remarkable or notorious of those that suffer'd was Fabian Price a Souldier and one who for a considerable time had been of that imployment having been in the late Expedition against the Rebels in Virginia where as some say he in Drunken Quarrelsome Humours committed some Crimes that were like to have render'd him obnoxious to Capital Punishment from the hands of Justice But whether that be true or not 't is certain he himself could not deny but he now suffered justly for taking away the Life of another who endeavoured to assist and help him as far as he was capable That lying in a field in the way to Branford he was civilly awakened by these three Soldiers who being wholly strangers had no other inducement but as he was their Fellow-Souldier to take him along with them That he swore bitterly at them and when they first came up with him his Musquet being cockt they asked him whether it were Charg'd he replyed with an Oath Yes and that with Bullet as well as Powder and that after all this he cockt again privately and on a sudden discharged it upon them shooting one of them into the Belly whereof without ever speaking a word he instantly died All these Circumstances I say were evidently proved by three Witnesses at his Trial and all that he had to plead for himself was that he was in Drink when he he did it 'T is true the operation of Drink does frequently cause people to do what they never thought on when sober but if in that Condition they commit any Crime their Drunkennness is so far from excusing them that 't is in all cases an high aggravation for a Drunkard is voluntarius Demon a voluntary Devil a Beast and a Mad man of his own making and can it be an Apology for a Maus villany that he first put out the light of his understanding that he might commit it resolutely shall one Sin patronize anot●e● or shall the defacing God Image in our selves by Drunkenness justifying us for destroying it in others by Murder Alass No this poor wretch found it otherwise and justly suffered when he was sober for the Blood he had shed when he was drunk The other Souldier who was Executed the day following at Hounslow for runing away from his Colours being Condemned upon the Statute had very little to say for himself but we hope it will be a warning to all others for committing the like offences Their Behaviour in Newgate was very penitent especially the Souldier for the Murther who exprest his sorrow for his Sins with abundance of Tears and all other signs of a hearty and sincere Contrition The Sunday before they suffered two Sermons were preacht to them upon 2 Cor. Ca. 4. v. 2 If our Gospel be hid it 's hid to them that are lost From whence the Minister took pains to shew them the danger those persons were in to whom the saving Mysteries of the Gospel were hid or unknown who were Strangers to the Covenant of Grace and had no Interest in the Lord Jesus That such Souls were in a lost undone and desperate state the horror● whereof he aggravated in several circumstances and then came to give them directions how to receive and secure their Souls from such peril and destruction a destruction as he well observed not of its natural Existence but of its Moral Excellence when 't is depraved degenerated banisht from God defiled with Sin and given up to ●●e by Devils eternally tormented in handling this part he first caution'd them from Seducers that would be apt to offer them Heaven and Happiness upon other terms than ever God intended and ready to abuse them with pre●ended Absolutions and pardons which in the day of the Lord would be of no value in the next place he prest them earnestly to consider the greatness of the loss when their Souls were lost to consider what it was for ever to be shut out of the Joys of Heaven and endure an Eternity of Torments that they now had but a few moments left them for not only their yeare and days but hours were numbred and upon these Moments their Everlasting Bliss or wo depended he therefore did beseech them seriously to reflect upon their Condition to be throughly sensible of bewail and abhor their natural state of enmity against God and Goodness to Repent speedily and heartily for all their multiplied and repeated Transgressions to see the loathsome deformity of Sin in it self and the necessity of a Saviour without whom they must infallably perish to all Eternity to fly to the Lord Christ for help and for Salvation and to accept him upon his own terms admitting him for their King to rule them as well as their Jesus to save them for they must be sanctified or else they would never be justified to this purpose he desired them to remove all lets and hindrances and seriously set to the work to cast off all thoughts of the World which they were so soon to part with and fix them on Eternity whither they were hastning to improve every minute of that small time they had left in making their peace with God and not deceive themselves by mistaking sorrow for the punishment to be Repeutance for sin or every check of Conscience for the pangs of the New Birth Alasa there must be a total and thorough change of the whole man an abhorrency of all sin planted in their wills and a love to God above all objects whatsoever in their Souls he told them there was not only an infinite value but an infinite vertue too in the blood of Christ and that they must feel the effects and influences thereof upon their hearts in this world if ever they Expected the benefit of it in the next c. concluding his discourse with diverse other necessary directions and pathetical Exhortations When the Person for Murder was carried forth to suffer he declared himself freely willing to Dye as having justly deserved it and would often aggravate his own Wickedness and Gods Mercy in that he suddenly had destroyed an Innocent person that offer'd Kindness to him without giving him any space for preparation or so much time as to say Lord have mercy upon him whereas he himself now was indulged several days to prepare for his Death At the place of Execution with abundance of Tears he besought all people to take warning and avoid that odious and most dangerous Sin of Drunkenness which renders those Men or rather beasts that practise it fit and ready for all kinde of mischief How many Whoredomes Adulteries Rapes and Murders have been hereby occasioned For Drunkenness is not only a Sin of the first rate in it self but a common Seminary or Seed-plot of all other Sins There is a Relation of a well-educated and disposed Young-man how he was once tempted to three Sins Murder Whoredome and Drunkenness of which he might take his choice who chose the last as being in his apprehension the least heinou● But behold When the Wine had inflam'd him having no longer any sense of Pitty or the obligations of Nature he slew his own Father and committed Incest with his Sister Let the sad Example of this poor wretches deplorable and untimely end that now justly suffered for a horrid Murder committed when he had made himself insensible of what he did by Drunkenness prevail with all to watch over themselves and avoid such Excess For how knowest thou O Reader but if thou proceedest in that Swinish Sin though masked under the flattering Title of Complaisance to Company and Good-fellowship God may give thee up when thou thy self hast wilfully drown'd that reason which he gave thee for a guide how knowest thou I say but he may give thee up to commit as great a sin as this poor Man now suffer'd for and so come to be made an Example thy self that would'st take no warning by the example of others FINIS