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A97283	The penitent murderer. Being an exact narrative of the life and death of Nathaniel Butler; who (through grace) became a convert, after he had most cruelly murdered John Knight. With the several conferences held with the said Butler in Newgate, by the Right Honorable the Lord Maior, and several eminent ministers, and others. As also his confession, speech, prayer, and the sermon preached after his execution; with several useful admonitions, and excellent discourses. / Collected by Randolph Yearwood, chaplain to the Right Honorable, the Lord Major of the city of London.	Yearwood, Randolph, d. 1689.	1657 (1657)	Wing Y23; Thomason E1660_2; ESTC R209007	51,603	133

The Penitent Murderer BEING AN Exact Narrative Of the Life and Death of NATHANIEL BVTLER Who through Grace became a Convert after he had most cruelly murdered JOHN KNIGHT With the several Conferences held with the said Butler in Newgate by the Right Honorable the LORD MAIOR and several eminent Ministers and others As also his Confession Speech Prayer and the Sermon preached after his Execution with several useful Admonitions and excellent Discourses Collected by RANDOLPH YEARWOOD Chaplain to the Right Honorable the Lord Major of the City of LONDON Deut 13.11 And all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you London Printed by T. Newcomb for J. Rothwell at the Fountain in Goldsmiths-Row in Cheapside and Tho. Matthews at the White-horse in the New Buildings in Pauls Church-yard 1657. London Saturday Sept. 12. 1657. Reader THis is that Exact Narrative concerning Nathaniel Butler which was some time since promised to come forth by my appointment under the hand of Randolph Yearwood Robert Tichborne Major To the Right Honorable Sr ROBERT TICHBORNE Kt Lord Major of the City of LONDON My Lord You have done being directed and enabled from on high many noble and good actions for this City the Government whereof is yet yours But really my Lord the right honorable act was this your personal and frequent visiting Nathaniel Butler when he lay a prisoner in Newgate His soul certainly was precious in your eyes and this engaged you to send others and to go your self to see him several times I verily believe you will see him yet once more not as a Malefactor in an obscure disparaging Goal but as an Angel of God in the Kingdom of Christ whither I am confident he is gone and you are going Before he went he desired me to give you humble thanks for all the favor he had received from you or by your means from others He was very thankfull to your Lordship and the rest of the Honorable Bench for his Fortnights Reprieval confessing that Court to be both just and merciful Just in condemning his body to death and merciful in sparing his life for some weeks after the Sentence upon design to save his soul And truly you may safely conclude that his soul is safe And is not such a Conclusion a rich Requital of all your Exhortations Tears and Prayers My Lord I shall rejoice to see you grow and abound yet more and more in Righteousness Holiness and as the Elect of God bowels of Mercies which will render you like unto and well liked of by the LORD of Lords To whom I leave you and remain Your Lordship's Servant RANDOLPH YEARWOOD THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Reader THE Malefactor mentioned in this following Narrative was none of mine acquaintance till for his horrid fact he was apprehended and imprisoned So that it was not any Relation of mine to him that put me upon this publication but I undertook this work as judging it of general concernment to all men both good and bad 1. As to the bad If thou art an evil wicked man er woman then this Narrative with the annexed admonitions and sermon c. much concern thee to make thee if possible penitent and truly reformed 2. Art thou a gracious good man or woman then thou hast reason to rejoyce on carth as God himself and the Angels of God rejoyce in heaven ever one repenting sinner Luke 15.7 and 10. I doubt not but thou wilt be well satisfied by the following Lines concerning the true conversion of a very hainous Offendor Now good Reader grant me one request not to look upon the following Discourses as a bare story or a piece of News and so having read and seen it there is an end But read and consider read and pray that this great and extraordinary passage of divine Providence may profit thy Soul which is the desire of my heart and Soul to God himself Otherwise I could not be as indeed I am thy Well-wisher Friend and Servant RANDOLPH YEARWOOD Three Conferences held with Nathaniel Butler during his Imprisonment by the Right Honorable the Lord Major under his Lordships own hand WHen Nathaniel Butler was first apprehended and brought before me he was in exceeding great burden of Spirit full of tears free to confess the Fact with all the aggravations thereof and was sollicitous for nothing but a few days respit for his poor Soul it seeming to me that nothing at that time was on his thoughts but what should become of his Soul At my first Conference with him which was about five or six days after his Condemnation I found him very ready to acknowledge his actual sins and to charge himself with them and the aggravations that did accompany them and this with sad tears of complaint and indignation against himself and his sins but did take no notice of his sinful Nature Which my self and a Friend with me Mr Griffith of the Charter house perceiving We endeavoured by Scripture to shew him his sinful Nature as the Root of all his sinful actions which he diligently hearkened to and was affected with but acknowledged his former Ignorance herein and that he had not so expresly before thougth hereof or been instructed hereabout and what he heard and received at this time among other Particulars was so far blest and wrought into his soul that to our selves and as we heard to others he did from that Night following much insist upon and bemoan his sinful nature and the state of sin he was born in as well as or together with those sinful acts he was guilty of At my second being with him after applying the free grace of God and Christ crucified to his faith for the pardon of his sins I asked him whether his heart could most willingly receive that pardon or a pardon for his life and bid him consider and tell me what his heart said in that Point After a little pause he made me this Answer That indeed he did not desire to live longer in this world for he had found sin so bitter a thing and himself so prone to sin that if he should live longer and sin against God it would be much more bitter to him then death and he did heartily Blesse God that had brought him to the hand of Justice and did truly love the party who as he thought was the Instrument to discover him acknowledging that the Devil had tempted him to lay violent hands on himself and after that temptation to fly beyond the Sea which if God had suffered him to do and so escaped Justice he might have gone on in his former course of sin without Repentance but did truly bless God that had delivered him from these temptations and had brought him to that condition that then he was in he did acknowledge with much thankfulness to God man the mercy of a few days between death and judgement and that God had given him so great a share in

not obeyed the voice of our Teachers nor inclined our car to them that instructed us This Great Offendor was one of your Rank had he taken the advice of Gods Word his sin had not been so great nor his punishment so terrible Of all we fear our counsel to you will be the most successless Youth is rash inconfide ate vain proud but sometime or other you will remember what we say Take heed of lesser sins Little sins will make way for greater sins if you sip of sin you ll be drunk of it at last How modest is sin at first but when 't is gratified it growes impudent This poor man lately executed first he began to game then to steal then to Whore and then to Murder Be careful of your company associate with them that fear God say unto them that are vain and wicked Depart from us for We will keep the Commandments of God Psal 119.115 Bad company is the way to corrupt and spoil you Can a man touch pitch and not be defiled Read the Scriptures much by them you must stand or fall to all eternity when we walk by you in your Shops we see many have their Play-Book in their hands but few have the Bible in their hands the Shop-Book is open but the Bible is shut Entertain high thoughts of Holiness and holy men The froth of your wits runs out too often in jeering godlinesse but take heed that 's not a thing to be so dealt withal Many of you count sin to be gallantry and Religion but a low and disgraceful thing God convince you of your folly Frequent Publick Ordinances especially upon the Lords day because you have not opportunity so to do upon the week days You 'l find more comfort in the Word and Prayer then in all your youthful delights Keep the Sabbath You have six dayes let God have one can he have lesse God out of special respects to servants hath instituted and sanctified this day How can you hope to keep an everlasting Sabbath in heaven if this Sabbath on earth be profaned by you Many go to Tiburn lamenting the profanation of the Lords day as that which ushered in all their wickedness Every day spend some time in private prayer 't is but rising a little the earlyer and going to bed a little the later you shall never be the worse for that time you spend in the Service of God Be subject and obedient to your Masters study how to please them bear with their passionate infirmities Do not purloyn but shew all good fidelity that the doctrine of God our Saviour may be adorned Tit. 2.9 10. Be diligent in your Callings if you be idle Satan will get an advantage The sitting bird is easily shot and the standing water gathers filth Love those that curb you and restrain you in wayes of sin they are your best friends 't is better to beheld in then to have a wicked liberty 't is better to have lust restrained then satisfied Be not angry with those who cannot see you damne your souls and let you alone Enter upon the wayes of God betimes the sooner the better Shall the devil have the best draught and shall God be put off with the Lees and Dregs Eccl. 12.1 Live alwayes as in Gods sight and know if you sin God will certainly sind you out one time or other Alas how many wayes hath God to bring the most hidden works of darkness to light sometimes by startling mens own consciences to an accusation of themselvs sometimes by awakening some of their complices to the discovery of the rest If you sin together you shall smart together Let this sad example never be forgotten by you for this Those that were Confederates in sin are made instruments and occasions of misery each to other Look not upon sin in the pleasure of it but in the danger of it The Wine sparkles in the cup but 't will be poyson in the belly Fear the strokes of God more then the stroaks of man What 's a fetter a dungeon a gallows to hell fire Mortifie a spirit of pride Never such pride amongst the youth of the City as now What vanity in apparel what superciliousness in carriage what contempt of Authority Oh be clothed with humility 1 Pet. 5.5 Give not way to imaginaay speculative heart sins Murder in the heart will soon be Murder in the hand uncleanness allowed in the thoughts wil come to bodily uncleanness at the last Keep Satan at a distaace if he get in he 'l be too hard for you To sum up all A dreadful spectacle of Gods Justice and of the fruit of sin bath been lately set before you we beseech you in the Bowels of Jesus Christ break off from all your sinful wayes by repentance One is smitten that many may fear He 's a warning to you take heed lest you be made a warning unto others If you would avoid his end walk not in his sins as secure as you are if you will allow your selves in that which is evil you do not know whither the divel wil carry you in a way of sin or to what God will bring you in a way of punshment Stand in aw therefore and sin not Ps 4.4 Flee youthful lusts 2. Tim. 2.22 Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he sal 1 Cor. 10.12 Every day pray that God will keep you from and strengthen you against temptation Say not 't is not possible I should ever be so vile as this Malefactor was Alas if God leave you you 'l be as bad as he Blessed is the man that feareth alwayes Prov. 28.14 In all things so carry your selves according to the rule of the Word that you may neither fall into the hands of men nor into the hands of God which is far the most dreadful 'T is a fearful thing to fal into the hands of the living God Heb. 10.31 That Governors and Governed may thus discharge their duties shall be the great design of our Ministrie by Gods assistance and our constant prayer at the Throne of Grace Septemb. 11. 1657. Edmund Calamy Arthur Jackson James Nalton Tho. Jacomb Robert Hutchison Thomas White Thomas Parson Thomas Doelittle Simeon Ashe Thomas Case Will. Taylor Roger Drake Geo. Griffith Matthew Poole Dan. Batcheler Finis

as all along he was ready to take all occasions of a full free and impartial confession of Sins cloathing them with their agravating Circumstances to make them out of measure sinfull His high admiring thoughts of the Love and Grace of God several ways he expressed in a most serious affectionate manner both in generall and in reference to himself and his sence of his interest in them He was much in Repetition with thankful wonderment of many proomises of God some I had before spoken of in preaching and some others such as set forth Gods readiness to pardon the freeness largeness and unchangeableness of the Pardoning mercy of God and again and again speaking in the words of Paul And that such an one as I should obtain mercy Such an one as I find mercy Admiring the distinguishing grace of God towards him that when other Prisoners though in lesse danger then himself of Death whom we then heard above makeing a noise were without thought of Sin or God God should snatch him as a Fire-brand and that in such a way making sin so great sin to be overruled to his great good He expressed his appretiating thoughts of Gods promises savourly descanting upon them and comfortably applying them to himself saying I could formerly find no thing desirable in a Promise or any Word of God it was a burthen to me but now that the promises were the rejoycing of his heart He said Satan had sorely winowed and buffeted him but Christ was on his side And using the words of the Apostle This is our rejoycing the Testimony of our Consciences he added God hath said whosoever repenteth and beleeveth shall find mercy and be saved my Conscience telleth me and witnesseth to me that I unfeignedly repent and really beleeve in Christ and I am one of those Whosoever therefore Christ is mine c. As to his Condition in general from what I found or otherwise heard I conceive there are many things very remarkable 1. As to his sin committted 1. That this great Sin was clearly a judiciall sin the punishment of former Sins for which God left him 2. That as it was the deserved fruit of a bad Cause so it was the accidentall cause of good fruit the Lord overshooting Satan in his own bow when and by what meanes he took to make sure of him God startled and roused Conscience which would not with the noise of lesse guilt be awaked and humbled the Sinner c. Secondly It seemeth to me very observeable as to the Work of God upon him that it was so orderly gradual he being first bound up partly through his ignorance in which he had been brought up partly through the amazing guilt that with an overwhelming stupifying power came upon him he afterwards by degrees and that at last to such a measure of clearness and distinctness of Understanding in the things of God had an extraordinary beam of divine light darted into his Soul and that by degrees his sence of the sinfulness of sin increased as I have been credibly informed to a deep humiliation not without horror and so ingenious confession And then upon the alone and most sufficient foundation of the rich and precious promises of the Gospel he was raised up to the apprehension of mercy and at last of his particular interest in it 3. The hand of the Lord upon the hearts of his People Magistrates Ministers and other Christians in some measure evidencing the thoughts of God towards the poor man to be thoughts of Peace and good-will In that favour he so high an Offendor found to have time of repentance and reconciliation who himself gave none to his Friend In the means afforded him and manifold helps for his spiritual advantage which he in my hearing took notice of with admiring thankfulness Sermons Visits generall pitty of Gods people in the importunate enlarged fervency of Ministers and Christians in praying for him scarcely to be parallel'd in the memory of men THO PARSON Some PassAges between Nath. Butler and a Friend of his that came to visit him which have been omitted in the other Conferences Friend HOw do you Nathautel N. Butler Very well blessed be God only I must tell you that even now here were with me some Popish Ladies who asked me concerning my Faith and what Religion I did intend to die in I told them in the true Protestant Religion of the Church of England They answered if I died not in the Roman Catholick Religion I could not be saved and prest it with several Arguments Pray inform me therefore what is this Popish Religion Fr. It is such a Religion that dares not trust in Christ alone without mingling their own merits with the merits of Jesus Christ Nath. That is saddest Religion in the world for me I shall never be of that Religion clapping his hand on his brest for I am the vilest wretch that lives I have not a good thought to trust to I must be saved only by the merits of Christ if ever I be saved The same Friend watching with him the night before he dyed wished him to think of the free mercy of God in Jesus Christ that God should call him at the eleventh hour He answered I desire to be vile in mine own eyes and admire free grace About five of the clock that morning he was to suffer death he was raised to a high pitch of joy and cried out Oh sirs help me Help me to glorifie God! shew me how to do it I cannot do it enough I cannot contain my self yet suspecting himself he asked those about him Was it so with you and with you when God wrought on you They replied it was Oh then said he it is right blessed be God Come let us sing the 100 Psalm which he sung with much alacrity About an hour after they knockt off his shackels now said his Friend Come Nat. now thy shackles are off I will get thee out and thou shalt run thy old course and have money enough and take thy fill of lust and pleasure again He seriously replied Really Really Really clapping his hand on his breast if I know my own heart I would not for ten thousand worlds lose the opportunity of this morning I am now going where I shall never sin again So leaving the dark Dungeon wherein he was Prisoner in order to his execution he uttered these expressions to his friends about him O this dark Dungeon The best Room that ever I came in and this contemptible Bed the best that ever I lay in AN EXACT NARRATIVE Of the Life and Death of NATHANIEL BUTEER With the several Conferences held with him by the Right Honorable the Lord Major and several eminent Ministers As also his Confessions Speech Prayer c. together with the Sermon preached the Evening after his Execution BEfore I enter upon the Narrative give me leave very briefly to premise how Nathaniel Butler behaved himself before this Murther committed viz. That he was a

could willingly serve him in singleness of heart Aus Thou art bound by the Gospel to obey and be in subjection to such a man if he be thy Master 1 Pet. 218 19. Servants be subject to your Masters with all fear of neglecting their lawful commands not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward For this is thank-worthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully For what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye take it patiently but if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is acceptable with God For even hereunto ye were called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that you should follow his steps Who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth Who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously I confesse it were well for Masters for wo to them that are naught and froward making their servants to suffer words and buffetings and other abuses wrongfully and well for Servants if they could serve men gentle and good but however they serve a God and Saviour that 's good and that will reward all that suffer lesse or more for his sake As my advice to you is that you would honour and obey and be faithful in all things to your Masters so I beseech you shun all sins and all appearance of evill but especially flee from idle companions Prov. 13.20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise but a companion of fools shall be destroyed Riotous deboist drunken swearing cursing whoring wretches are fools in the sense of Scripture and seeing it is self-destructive to be a companion with such persons wilt thou walk any more with such drinking to drunkenness Dicing and Carding are things of evill report and very evill things they lead likewise to other evils Nathaniel Butler was a great Company keeper and a great Gamester and what did he grow to at the last 2. Flee 2 Tim. 2.22 youthfull lusts Flee fornication 1 Cor. 6.18 But before a man will flee from any thing he must see that thing to be dangerous Now that Fornication Uncleanness and Whoredom is dangerous I demonstrate thus whereby it will appear every way destructive that it 1. Endangereth Reputation 't is a dishonour to the name and person of a Man or Woman Deut. 23.17 There shall be no whore of the daughter of Israel nor a Sodomite of the sons of Israel Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God Rom. 1.24 Wherefore God gave them up unto uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonour their own bodies among themselves Heb. 13.4 Marriage is honourable in all and the bed underfiled implying the defiled is shameful but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge 2. Endangereth substance Pro. 29.3 Who so loveth wisdom rejoyceth his father but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance How many have spent fair Estates by following this filthy sin Many spend their own substance and that also which is not their own but their Masters or Parents upon impudent wicked whorish women it is a disgracing and an impoverishing sin who sees not this by experience oftentimes 3. Following Harlots will lead thee to Hell will provoke God to take vengeance on thee Jer. 5 7 8 9. How shall I pardon thee for this thy chidren have forsaken me and sworn by them that are no gods when I had fed them to the full then they committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in Harlots houses the vengeance of God will rout and miserably destroy such troops when he sets himself in array against them they were as fed horses in the morning every one neighed after his neighbours wife Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord and shall not my soul wo then to their souls be avenged on such a Nation as this Prov. 7.25 26 27. Let not thine heart decline to her ways go not astray in her path for she hath cast down many wounded wounded in their credit wounded in their Estates and wounded in their Consciences yea many strong men have been slain by her This is a bloody wounding slaying sin Vers 27. Her house is the way to hell going down to the chambers of death To live in chambering and wantonness is the way to lie down in the chambers of death Remember the two young men named in the Narrative who were lately bedfellows above ground and now are become chamber-fellows bellow for the fear of the Lord prolongeth dayes but the years of the wicked shall be shortned break off then speedily from all sin as you hope for long-lasting life here and for everlasting life hereafter Obj. We can repent and mourn and pray hereafter For did not Nathaniel Butler live a long time wickedly and repented in a short time at the last Answ Do not think that you can repent when you please if you put off Repentance you put it to a peradventure 2 Tim 2.25 In meekness instructing those that oppse themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth Do as David did Psal 119.20 who made haste and delayed not to keep the Commandments of God Delays in matters relating to life are most dangerous I hope no man nor woman will presume that the Lord is any way obliged to wait upon them so long as they please indeed it pleaseth him to wait to be gracious but who knows how neer to a period the time of Gods attendance on sinners is Acts 17.30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at but now commandeth alt men every where to repent 2 Pet. 3.9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness but is long suffering to us ward not willing that any should perish but that all as Acts 17.30 men every where should come to repentance The Gospel of God and the goodness of God are gone forth for this very end to lead men to repentance but if sinners refuse to repent then after their hardness and impenitent heart under the Gospel goodness and long-suffering of God they treasure to themselves wrath against the day of wrath Rom. 2.5 1. God hath a day of grace for every poor sinner 2. He hath a day of wrath for men finally impenitent Think on it is it not a thing proper and likely to provoke God against you to swear in his wrath you shall never enter into his rest seeing men despise his goodness and do receive his grace in vain Nathaniel Batler being Executed in Cheapside over against Milk-street End about eight or nine in the morning a Multitude of People being Spectators he was afterwards cut down and his Corps put into that Coach which

design and in God's sense and esteem who searcheth the heart As a man that doth not commit the act of Adultery is an Adulterer nevertheless if his heart lust after a woman Mat. 5.28 So if a man never lay violent hands upon another yet if his heart disaffect and hate him he is a Murderer And ye know that no Murderer whether he be a Murderer in the sense of this Scripture or any other hath eternal life abiding in him that is hath the promise of eternal life or the evidence of it abiding in him Do not conceive from this clause that a man who was at any time guilty of blood by murthering another or hating another cannot be saved or enter into life for Manasseh David and others were blood-guilty but upon repentance were pardoned I doubt not of Nathaniel Butlers life eternal though he did destroy and take away the life of his Brother because God gave him repentance and humiliation The meaning is this No Murderer hath eternal life abiding in him if this man abide in his malice hatred and under his murder impenitent and stupid Is he whosoever he be that hateth another a Murderer Then Vse 1. Examine your selves Is Hatred so hainous a sin How may we know then whether we are not haters of any man Now Hatred is manifested thus 1. By refusing to rebuke thy brother or neighbor for his sin Lev. 19.17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy brother and not suffer sin upon him Prov. 13.24 He that spareth the rod hateth his son 2. By keeping without cause at a distance from men Gen. 26.27 And Isaac said unto them Wherefore come ye to me seeing ye hate me and have sent me away from you If ye cry Away with him away with him to banishment imprisonment Away with such an one out of my sight I cannot endure this or that person in my sight Thou art an hater and a murderer See Judg 11.7 And Jephtah said unto the Elders of Gilead Did not ye hate me and expel me out of my fathers house 3. Warlike language Gen. 37.4 They hated him and could not speak peaceably to him When men cannot give one another a good word what is this but malice and hatred in the heart Gen. 49.29 The archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him Bending the bow and shooting bitter words speak out bitterness and hatred within 4. Lying in wait for rising up against and mortally wounding another Deut. 19.11 But if any man hate his neighbor and lie in wait for him and rise up against him and smite him mortally that he die c. Rev. 17.16 These shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire Harsh usage shews hatred Try your selvs by these and other Scripture-signs and try impartially Vse 2. Exhort men to lay aside their sin See what the word chargeth upon 't 1. 'T is from the Devill as love is of God 1 Thes 4.9 Ye are taught of the Devill to hate 1 John 4.11 12. This is the Message that ye heard from the beginning that we should love one another not as Cain who was of that WICKED ONE meaning as Cain was a man of cruelty and hatred so he was of the Divell hatred is all hatcht in Hell O then retain it no more in your hearts 2. It proves a man to be yet unregenerate Titus 3.2 3. For we our selves also were sometimes foolish and disobedient deceived serving divers lusts and pleasures living in MALICE and ENVY hatefull and hateing one another But after that the kindness and love of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appeared c. It s too too apparent from this passage that the kindness and love of God hath not wrought kindly upon mens hearts so long as they live in malice envy and hatred how can a man be a cut throat and a Christian at the same time a man of hatred and a child of God 3. Thou art a murderer I have here transscribed some suteable passages of a very reverend Godly man I mean Mr. Joseph Caryl who in his excellent exposition upon the 5th Chapter of Job and 2 verse speaketh thus concerning wrath So in like manner wrath is said to slay a man first because it thrusts him headlong upon such things as are his death he runs willfully upon his own death sometimes by the dangerousness of the action when a casuall sudden death surprises him sometime by the unlawfulness of the action which brings him to a legal judiciary death Secondly his wrath is said to kill him because his wrath is so vexations to him that it makes his life a continual death to him and at last so wearieth him out and wasts his Spirits that he dies for very grief and so at once commits a threefold murder First he murders him intentionally against whom he is wroth Secondly he really murders his own body And thirdly he meritoriously murders his Soul for ever except the Lord be more merciful then he hath been wrathful and the death of Christ heale those wounds by which he would have procured the death of others and hath as much as in him lies procured his own This is true of hatred as well as of wrath for he that hateth his brother is a Murderer 1. He murthers his Brother whom he hates hatred is a wishing and seeking for at least in heart the slaughter death and destruction of his Brother when the Apostle John affirmeth whosoever hateth his Brother is a Murderer his meaning is he is a Murderer of that Brother whom he hateth and he is so because he hateth him 2. He that hateth his Brother is a Murderer more then once he doth not only murder his brother but himself by bringing eternal death upon himself for hateing his Brother he that murders himself is felo de se a Self-murderer is manifest from these words and ye know that no murderer meaning a malicious man hath eternal life abiding in him To be a murderer is 1. A crying sin Gen. 4.10 And he said what hast thou done the voyce of thy Brothers blood cryeth unto me from the Ground If men would think what am I doing now I am hateing my Brother I am murdering in Gods account and murder is a loud sin Surely then we should harbour no hatred Murder 2 It is a very reproachful shameful sin considered in the act that followes it to prove a man guilty of willfull murder renders him a shame to himself a blot to his relations thou that hatest art a murderer O be ashamed of this shameful hatred 3. Murder is a sin that sets the vengeance of God against a man the very Barbarians beleeve that vengeance and death will fall strangely and speedily on Murderers Acts 28.4 And when the Barbarians saw the venemous beast hang on his hand they said among themselves very confidently no doubt this

brought him to Execution and from thence conveyed to Gregories Churchyard London where about Noon he was burled That Evening at S. Gregordes Church a Sermon was preached by Mr Randolph Yearwood the Lord Majors Chaplain there being a great confluence of People The Substance wherof take as followeth I JOH 3.15 Whosoever hateth his Brother is a Murderer and ye know that no Murderer hath eternal Life abiding in him THE Apostles intent in this Epistle was and indeed my design in this Sermon is to promote true love in mens hearts towards one another His Arguments are many which he propoundeth as so many provocations to love Consider these seven 1 Arg. 1 John 5.9 10 11. He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is no occasion of stumbling in him But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whether he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes as though he should say Love surpasseth hatred as far as light excelleth darkness Arg. 2. Men are not of God but they are the children of the Devil unless they love as brethren This is plain and manifest 1 John 3.10 In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devil whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother 1 Joh. 4.7 Beloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God Arg. 3. He that Ioveth not knoweth not God for God is love 1 Joh. 4.8 Arg. 4. A man otherwise cannot clear up his love to God 1 Joh. 4.20 If a man say I love God and hateth his Brother he is a Lyar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen Arg. 5. 1 John 4.10.11 Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins Beloved if God so loved us we ought also to love one another Arg. 6. If you love the Brethren ye have passed from death to life 1 Joh. 3.14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren Arg. 7. The last Argument is drawn from the dreadful estate of a man that loves not his brother 1 Joh. 3.14 He abideth in death he is a murderer he hath not eternal life abiding in him And now I am returned to the words which I intend to handle Whosoever hateth his Brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him Here we have two things very remarkable 1. A description of a Gospel-murderer for in the sense of our Law meer hatred doth not make a murderer Whosoever hateth his Brother is what is he a Murderer 2 A declaration of the damnable state of such a murderer And ye know 't is a known case that no murderer hath eternal life abideing in him Let us consider the first of these two truths in the words of the Apostle viz. Obser 1. Whosoever hateth his Brother is Murderer It is requisite to say something by way of Explication to this truth and then by way of Application Whosoever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every one every malicious man without exception whether he be reputed good or bad holy or unholy if he hateth his brother he is a murderer if he be rich or poor high or low Magistrate or Minister whosoever he be if he hate he is here included in the indictment of murder Whosoever is a term of universality Hateth By hating two things are hinted in Scripture 1. A comparative respect This first is plain in Gen. 29 30. And he went in also unto Rachel and he loved also Rachel more then Leah 31. And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated that is was loved less then Rachel Luk. 14.26 If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own life also cannot be my Disciple Now 't is not lawful properly and indeed to hate a mans self or his Relations though he might gain heaven thereby Observe Luke the Evangelist saith cap. 14.26 If a man hate not brethren he cannot be Christs Disciple and John the Apostle affirms Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer So that we must take the term hate in some places to signifie a less degree of love so in Luke He that loveth not Christ more then himself more then his Wife or Children more then Brethren or sisters cannot be my Disciple as suppose a man must either forsake Jesus Christ or else his natural and near relation this for saking of them and cleaving to Christ the Scripture expresseth by hating of them not that men hate or may lawfully hate their Friends but they love them less then they love the Lord Christ So Matth. 10.37 He that loveth Father or Mother more then me is not worthy of me and he that loveth Son or Daughter more then me is not worthy of me 2. Hating is taken for a very strong disrespect and a mighty implacable disaffection in the heart of one man towards another mans person insomuch that a man cannot find in his heart to say well of or do good unto another but he can find in his heart to speak all manner of evil and act all manner of mischief hurt and wickedness against another This is our Apostles sense He that hateth his brother i.e. he that sheweth no pitty or compassion to but prejudice cruelty and indignation against his brother is a Murderer This is utter hatred according to that in Judg. 15.2 I verily thought thou hadst utterly hated her Brother 1. Natural brother Mat. 4.18 And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee saw two brethren Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother 2. Kinsman and Country-man Rom. 9.3 4. For my brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh who are Israelites 3. A Christian one obedient to Christ Mat. 12.48 49.50 Who is my mother and who are my brethren And he stretched forth his hand towards his Disciples and said Behold my mother and my brethaen for whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven the same is my brother Heb. 3.1 Wherefore holy brethren partakers of the holy calling 4. Any humane creature man woman or child Mat. 7.3 4. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye meaning in the eye of any other person but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye Or how wilt thou say to thy brother to any man Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye and behold a beam is in thine own eye Acts 17.26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth Is a Murderer That is in his desire and