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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56903	Hell open'd, or, The infernal sin of murther punished being a true relation of the poysoning of a whole family in Plymouth, whereof two died in a short time : for which horrid fact, the malefactors were condemned before the Lord Chief Justice North at Exector, the last Lent assizes, the one to be burnt, the other to be hanged : with an account of the several discourses and religious means used by divers godly ministers to bring them to repentance ... / by J.Q., Minister of the Gospel.	Quick, John, 1636-1706.	1676 (1676)	Wing Q207; ESTC R11200	63,192	112

his afterwalk spent much time alone mourning before his death and that day he died having no visible appearance thereof to those who looked on he was heard in his Chamber much Wrestling in Prayer and after long continuance those of the House were forced to break open the Door getting no answer after their long knocking and found him dead in the Room but upon his knees in a Prayer posture and the whole blood of his body which from every passage thereof had issued out swimming about the Floor It being visible how all these passages were opened for that effect a most astonishing instance declaring this to the world though he pardon the iniquity of his people Yet some sins he will not let pass without a visible mark of his anger but will take vengeance on their inventions I have given you the Story in its own Scottish Dialect 7. Carry this ever upon your hearts keep it in your minds that you have a Father and Master in Heaven and that dayly tributes of obedience and Thanksgiving must be yielded by you unto him That you are Gods Children and Gods Servants and you must Love Honor Reverence and Obey the Lord whose you are and that you ought to serve him principally in the first place and continually to the very last Remember you have pretious never dying Souls and these must be saved Do not for fear of any mans displeasure displease God and Damn your Souls If you once come to neglect God to turn your backs upon your known duties God will abandon you And if God leave you woe woe unto you My dear Youth acquaint your selves with the practice of secret Prayer Be at least once a day in private upon your knees before God Bear the Yoke of Christs Commandments it is a Golden Yoke his Yoke is easie his Burden light You have seen very lately a vast difference between the Service of God and of sin When Souls drudge for sin like a cursed Tyrant it makes them dig their untimely Graves Sin is neither profitable nor honorable nor comfortable It puts you upon the basest work and pays the worst wages What fruit have sinners had of sin but shame That Harvest which they reap from the Seed of sin is nothing else but an heap of grief and desperate sorrows 8. Receive warning and instruction from these dreadful providences Do not boast nor glory over these wretches You stand by Grace be not high minded but fear it is God withholds you from their sins and preserves you from their Judgments Our blessed and Famous Martyr Master Bradford never saw any Malefactor leading to Execution but he would smite upon his breast and say Here Within me is the root of that matter for which this man suffers You can all say the same Remember Lots Wise If God erect A Pillar of Salt in Plymouth if God Fire a Beacon upon Catdown as God hath done in the Execution of these unfortunate Creatures here is the use you must make of them to hear and fear and do no more any such wickedness They are become a Sign unto you God hath made them your Examples to the intent that you should not lust after evil things as they lusted They are a Warning-piece shot off in your Ears a Light-house presented to your Eyes that you might be kept from the paths of the Destroyer These things are happened and fallen out now in your days for Examples that you might take admonition upon whom the ends the last and worst days of the World are come The just Lord hath been in the midst of us he cannot do iniquity every morning doth he bring his judgments to light he faileth not Oh! be not as the unjust that know no shame When Gods judgments are come home so near unto us to our very Doors and Houses The Youth of Plymouth must learn righteousness If you will not be warned by others God will make you a warning unto others Dear youth remember that all Poysoners all Dogs that Bark at Religion and Godly Persons all Whoremongers and Murderers all wicked and unnatural Children all disobedient and undutiful Servants shall be driven out of Heaven by this Token by this Sign that Two of Plymouth were lately by a very shameful and cursed death driven out of the Earth II. Art thou a Superior A Master or Parent Friendly Reader Then suffer the word of Exhortation 1. STudy Christian Oeconomicks the Arts of well-ordering thy Family according to the Laws of Christ and put them into practice It was an excellent Order of our Church full of religious Prudence that those who Married should on their wedding day receive the Sacrament Teaching us this Lesson that none should enter upon Family charges before they did well understand the nature of Family duties Ah! how much is this neglected Persons get into a married life and yet them Families Servants and Children before they have any skill to govern themselves and neither skill nor will to govern s uch as are under them This is the true Source of all our mischiefs the Seminary and Root of our abounding Prophaneness and till there be a Reformation here in our respective Families in Masters and Parents I shall despair of ever meeting with it among Children or Servants If Children prove unnatural and Servants ungovernable Why did you not teach them better If you are ignorant of your duties do not complain that they neglect theirs If Poyson and Murder come into a Family it was because the fear of God was not there 2. My dear Plimouthians Give good Examples to those that are under you They are led more by Examples than Precepts They do not write after the best Copies but those that are nearest hand Oh! walk before God before your Children and Servants in a perfect way Read and Meditate upon the 101. Psalm There is a divine Platform of your whole duty What Children learn from their Parents Servants from their Masters that do they instil and teach also unto their Children and Servants The happiness or wretchedness the weal and woe of the next age depends upon the Education and Examples of this Make not posterity miserable nor your own Flesh and Blood your dearest parts your chiefest Goods to curse you when you are dead and gone for your cockering and indulgence to them Live all the Sermons you hear and be an Epistle of commendation of your Ministers to your Children Servants Families and the whole World Let none under your roofs have occasion to behold your miscarriages They are natural Apes imitating what is had not what is good Keep your selves from all sin and keep the sight of sin from all that belong unto you If Children and Servants instead of Praying hear Swearing and Cursing instead of the Bible and Catechisms bloody Oaths and Blaspheming instead of seeing Holiness and the shining beauties of Godliness shall be the Spectators of their Parents wickedness and uncleanness Atheism and Irreligion Mark it Sirs Mark what I

just like a Grain cast on a piece of Gold or a light Feather upon an heap they may turn the Scales and bring down upon you Eternal Vengeance The Sodomites had committed many sins and God had passed them by very graciously at last they would have sinned and are punished with Hell out of Heaven for the sin of their Wills a sin intended by them though never committed Gen. 19.9.11.24 2. My dear Youth beware of wicked Company Blessed is the Man that walketh not in the Counsel of the Ungodly nor standeth in the way of Sinners nor sitteth in the Seat of the Scornful Psal 1.1 Look upon wicked Company as Plaguy Person and shun them as you would those who had the Plague of God upon them VVhen Corah and his rebellious Crue were swallowed up alive by the yawning Earth and went down quick into Hell All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them for they said lest the Earth swallow us up also Num. 33.34 My Son if Sinners intice thee consent thou not if if they say come with us let us lay wait for Blood let us lurk privily for the Innocent without Cause let us swallow them up alive as the Grave We shall find all pretious substance we shall fill our Houses with spoil Cast in thy lot among us let us all have one Purse My Son walk not thou in the way with them refrain thy Foot from their path For their Feet run to evil they lay wait for their own Blood You lurk privily for the destruction of your own lives Companions in sin will be Companions in Hell Prov. 1.10 to 19. 3. Flee the sins of youth vanity and self-conceitedness rashness pride and ostentation hot blood Fiery and vindictive passions noysome filthy and fleshly lusts disobedience and brutish obstinacy self-love lying idleness and intemperance neglect of your Souls forgetfulness of God and of your latter end Sins of youth have been an Hell to Gods aged Saints Thou writest bitter things against me and rememberest the iniquities of my Youth Job 13.26 The sins of your green years will be a stock of sorrows for your Gray Hairs Young Colts must be tamed and broken A young Penitent is better than an aged Sinner Holyness in youth will give you peace in death 1 King 14.13 and 2 Chronicles 34.27.28 4. Study diligently and practice conscientiously the duty of thy place calling and Relation Art thou a Child Learn and perform the duty of a Child Art thou a Servant Learn and perform the duty of a Servant submit to Catechizing do not count it a thing beneath thee Subjection to Gods Ordinances is thy dignity and Glory Honor thy Father and Mother thy Master and Mistress is the First Commandment with promise if you do not you are self-Murderers you cut your own Throats and shorten the days of your life I have read of a Young man Hanged at Four and twenty years whose Curled Black Locks upon the Gallows instantly turned white many inquiring into the cause of such a strange event A Grave Divine assigned this reason had this young man been dutiful to his Parents Obedient to his Superiors he might have lived so long till that in the course of nature his Black Hairs had become White 5. When tempted to any scandalous sin tending to the hurt of thy Neighbor and the Temptation abideth on thee disclose it without any more ado to some Godly Minister This dasheth the temptation to pieces and will contribute as you shall find by experience wonderfully unto your peace and safety Had this poor Girl when first assaulted detected the Devils Counsel possibly she had never been drawn out to Murder I knew one in the like Case that after I had preached of the mischievousness of thoughts and of the ready way to quell and subdue their violence and impetuosity by taking Ghostly Counsel from a Spiritual Guide came and discovered unto me with a stood of Tears a long imended purpose of Murder and by the blessing of God on a Religious use of Holy Counsels was afterward delivered from that Hellish Temptation Beware dear Youth of trusting to your own understanding or going out in your own strength to combat Hell You are not all Davids of sufficient force to Duel it with the Goliah of Hell 6. Do not commit any sin presuming on secrecy or Impunity not on secrecy For there is nothing hid but shall be revealed Conscience that Bird of the Air shall publish upon the House top before Men and Angels what you have done in your Privy Chambers Angels see you good and bad and they shall Witness against you God seeth you at all times Who can hide himself from God that is every where and knoweth all things Darkness and light are both alike to him Psalm 139.1 to 13. and Job 34.21.22 Murderers have of all other sinners presumed most upon Secrecy and yet how miraculously have they been detected Dreams Apparitions and meer Circumstances have detected and Convicted them And suppose you might escape Scot-free as to man is it possible you can escape the Justice of God The Barbarous Malteses spake sound Doctrine though they were out in their Application when they said of Paul no doubt this man is a Murderer whom though he hath escaped the Sea yet vengeance suffereth not to live God may forgive the Eternal but will not remit the temporal punishment If you escape a publick Execution you shall never a private one Kings may pardon what God will not Some that have escaped the Gallows could never escape the Scourges of their own Conscience which is Gods Vice-Gerent Yea though truly Penitent yet have died either with grief of mind or by the immediate stroke of Heaven Plymouth can afford an example of the former many years ago and Scotland shall of the Latter A Gentleman whose name was Wastraw a most bloody man and other ways notorious for prophaneness but most in this that it was his great work and pleasure to put difference betwixt men and as it was at that time very easie to engage them in blood whilest he had thus stirred up a neighbor Gentleman to kill another in that place finding him after sore troubled in mind there anent he told him more of that practise would be the best Cure for he himself had killed Six and at the first time was much disquieted but the longer he did continue it became the more easie But one day whilest he was on such an account riding to a place where Two had trysted to deside a private Quarrel by Fighting his Horse stumbles on the side of a steep Rock and he falls a great way down his Sword falling out before him yet without any hurt and hereby such a strange piece of Providence tryst and break in upon his Conscience so that he quits his Journey turns home with great trouble and remorse a most kindly change following thereon and for some years after witnessed much tenderness and repentance by

tell you without Miracles of mercy you and your Children and your Servants and your Houses shall be undone Eternally The curse of the Lord is it to the House of the Wicked but he blesseth the Habitation of the Just 3. My dear Townsmen Perform Family duties let them not grow out of use and fashion Whatever others do yet do you and your Families serve the Lord. Give God a Morning and Evening Sacrifice of Prayer and Thanksgiving He hath throatned to pour out his wrath upon the Families that call not upon his Name Jer. 10. ult Prayerless Families are Paganish Families and Heathen Families are loathed by God Read the Scriptures daily in your Houses Catechize and Instruct in the doctrinals of Religion the Youth within your Gates Repeat and frequently discourse with them about the Word of God read and preached Sanctifie the Lords day Sing Psalms and the high-sounding Praises of God in your dwellings Examine the Proficiency of your Children and Servants in the grace and knowledg of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Give due and seasonable reprehension and correction and spare not the Rod unless you will spoil the Child Comfort and incourage them in well-doing Press them to private duties and give them time for Closet-prayer and do you endeavor to bring them to the publick Worship and Ordinances especially to the Sacraments Remember that they who serve God most will serve you best that a graceless Servant is a Devil in your Family which will ruin himself and you and yours also 4. Consider with your selves that you have the charge of Souls there is a great trust committed from Heaven unto Governours of Families The Lord Treasurer of the Kingdom hath no such Jewels nor Treasure in the Exchequer as you have in your Houses God hath made you the Guardians and Trustees of pretious Souls and as sure as you live shall you be responsible for them unto God Do your utmost that none miscarry under your hands Prefer the concerns of their Souls to those of your Bodies and be at as much care and pains that they may live in Heaven as you and yours to live on Earth You are their best and surest Friends if fast and faithful Friends unto their Souls To ruin a Soul is the Trick and Work of Devils it is an irreparable loss an everlasting evil Lost Goods may be recovered but if a Soul be once damned either by your sins of omission or commission it can never be recovered more The Lord deliver you from the Guilt of Soul-Murder 5. When you dispose your Children abroad in the World get them into Religious Families that they may drive a thriving trade Heaven-ward and obtain the Inheritance of Gods Saints his pretious promises It is not Riches nor Honors nor great dealings in the VVorld but Godliness that hath the promises of this life and of that which is to come 6. Are your Relations and Inferiors your Children and Servants wicked and irreligi●us do you become better Let not their sins be justy charged on your Souls Shortly VVhen death is in your Pot remember nothing but the Grace of God can preserve you Therefore value and prize it Did Servants do it Consider that it is just with God they should be Instruments of your destruction when your neglect of their Religious Education is a real cause of their Trangression They must go to Heaven as well as you and therefore should injoy liberties and opportunities for the solemn and publick Worship of God as well as your selves The Gallows and Stake the Fire and Halter preach unto Young and Old High and Low Parents and Children Masters and Servant this Doctrin That unless you do Repent you shall also perish Gods judgments upon others are warnings unto us It is an Oracle from Heaven That such who sin as others shall perish as others That if you do not repent the wrath of God which lighted upon others shall either here or hereafter infallibly and to all eternity light down upon you also FINIS