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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

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