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A50229	A sermon, occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder, preached at Boston in N.E., March 11th, 1685/6 (together with the confession, last expressions, & solemn warning of the murderer to all persons, especially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end) / by Increase Mather ...	Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697. Exhortation to a condemned malefactor.	1687 (1687)	Wing M1248; ESTC W19800	66,053	133

your serious Attention Doct. The Lord Jesus Christ in His Gospel graciously earnestly inviteth all the Children of men to Look unto Him by Faith upon Him for SALVATION When the no less unexpected than un deniable Request of the dying man who now stands in in this Assembly that I would allow him this Morning a Discourse proper for his uncomfortable Circumstances was yesterday brought unto me I cold not suddenly think on any thing more accommodated unto all the Persons Services which are before me than that which I have now pitch'd upon The Body of this Congregation can't hear of a more important thing than this of Looking unto Jesus Christ for Salvation Men and Brethren This is the One thing needful The little flock of Communicants unto whom I am by by to administer the Holy Supper cannot be excited unto a fitter work than this of Looking unto Jesus Christ for Salvation Christians this is our Errand hither The poor condemned Malefactor who is here listening to one of the three last Sermons that ever he is like to fit under before his Encounter with the King of Terrors cannot be put in mind of any thing that will more tend to prepare him for his near approaching death than this of Looking unto the Lord of Life for Salvation Life Poor man do you hearken I 'll study to make this whole hour very particularly suitable serviceable to you and methinks a man that knows himself about to take an eternal Farewel of all Sermons should endeavour to hear with most earnest heed The God of Heaven grant that Faith may come unto you by your Hearing It is a very pretious Repast which is thus brought unto you O immortal Souls It comes from the Land flowing with milk honey The ensuing Propositions may carve it out unto you The 1st Proposition that arrests our thoughts is 1. That to Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is to Look unto Him for Salvation These blessed things are equivalent each to the other and herein we have both the Act of Faith and the End of Faith. fairly suggested unto us ¶ As for the Act of Faith that is a Looking The Faith of God's Elect hath in the Scripture several Bodily Actions used as the Metaphors Shadows of it There is the Action of the Hand for the sake of which in Joh. 1. 12. Faith is said to be a Receiving of Jesus Christ There is the Action of the Mouth in Resemblance of which in Joh. 6. 54. Faith is said to Fat the Flesh of Jesus Christ There is the Action of the Foot in regard of which Joh. 6. 35. Faith is said to be a Coming unto Jesus Christ Thus likewise the Action of the Eye is here improved to denote the Christ-ward motions of soul which the Believer hath There is indeed a 3 fold Look which the beleeving Soul in its Agonies does give towards the Lord Jesus Christ There is a Look of Desire a Look with a Wish yea with a Groan a Look with a Lord help me Such a Look as the hoarse L●per gave in Marc. 1. 40. when he came to Jesus Christ beseeching Him kneeling down unto Him. There is also a Look of Dependance a Trusting a Rolling a Relying Look a Look accompanied with the Language of the Psalmist in Psal 25. 2. O my God I trust in thee And there is a Look of Acknowledment producing both of these Many things doth the Believer d●scern confess to be in that Jesus whose Name is Wonderful Counsellor The mighty God the Everlasting Eather the Prince of Peace But these 2 things especially One thing of which he is sensible is that Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour owning that in Heb. 7. 25. He is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by Him. Another thing whereof he is not unsensible is that Jesus Christ is a Merciful Saviour owning that in Joh. 6. 37. Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out After this manner does the Believer look to the Saviour upon the everlasting Hills from whence comes all his help But upon what Motive for What ¶ As for the End of Faith that is SALVATION This the Apostle grants in 1. Pet. 1. 9. where he speaks to Christians about the end of their Faith the Salvation of their souls That which the Believer doth purpose to himself by his Addresses to Jesus Christ is that he may be rescued from all the Calamities which his Fall from God hath brought upon him and that he may be made partaker of Benefits contrary thereunto by the means of an All-sufficient a Compassionate Jesus the Mediator There are indeed especially three things which the Believer does look unto the Lord Jesus for His first Look is with that glance in Psal 119. 122. Lord Be surely for thy servant for good He would behold Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God appearing before divine Justice in his room adding unto this Cast of his Eye this Throb of his heart Oh let Jesus Christ take away all my Sins with all the wants woes which thereby I become obnoxious unto He would have Jesus Christ to remove all the guilt that lies upon him to enstate him in the Favour and Fellowship of God and to procure for him all Blessings whatsoever especially spiritual Blessings the Blessings of the upper springs the sure Mercies of the Covenant by His own Obedience Intercession His Next Look is with thatsigh in Plal. 25. 4. Shew ●e thy wayes O Lord Teach me thy paths There is an Eye-salve which he petitions unto this Lord our healer for He flyes cryes unto Jesus Christ as that son of sorrow did of old Lord that I may receive my sight He would have Christ to remove all the blindness of his mind to reveal unto him the happiness which is not seen and which is eternal and to discover unto him all that he must know do in order to his obtaining of it His Look is with that Aim in Psal 119. 5. Oh that my mayes were Directed to Keep thy statutes O God! He submits unto the ruling Will of God while he Emplores the Saving Grace of Jesus Christ He reckons that the Most High by saying I have ●●●t my Son to bless you by turning you away from your Iniquities hath told him of a Blessedness a Loving kindness which he hath infinite cause to say Amen unto He would have Jesus Christ to remove all the Disorder of his Will to incline him so that he may refuse the evil choose the good and to shield him against all the ruining attempts of the World the Flesh and the Devil for evermore This all of this Faith is beck'nned for in this one word Look unto Me. And these are the Christward Looks which must be given by you whose eyes will be within a few dayes clos'd by the cold hands of grim Death if you would not roar in outer worse●han

against his brother that had murdered him But that This is a grievous sin is manifest 1. In that it is a most unnatural thing Creatures of the same kind are not wont to destroy one another Naturalists observe concerning Wolves that though they be cruel creatures they will never kill one another therefore if Men do so they are worse than Wolves Tygers so that Murder is an unnatural and a monstrous Wickedness 2. The Vengeance which is wont to follow this Sin proves that it is an horrid and hainous Transgression There is a peculiar Vengeance that does pursue this sin at the heels of it The Gentiles had the motion of this fix'd in their minde hence those Barbarians could say No doubt this man is a murderer whom tho' he escaped the seas yet Vengeance suffereth not to live Act. 21. 4. ‖ Ethnici Dicen tanquam deam filiam Jovis colebant in Plut. l. de ser a vindict Dice daemon dicitur The Heathen esteemed dike the word there used for Vengeance as a Deity that would not suffer great Sinners and in special Murderers to go unpunished Temporal Vengeance pursueth this Sin. Hence they that have been guilty of it seldom live long in quiet Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days Psal 55. 23. Either they are cut off by the Sword of Civil Justice or if their Murders happen to be undiscovered a secret Curse of God follows them Often times they are themselvs Murdered as both Divine and humane Records do abundantly declare Nay tho men should truly repent of this sin and are then thro' the Merit of Christ saved from everlasting Punishment yet not from Temporal Judgment I cannot tell whether ever any man that was found guilty of this sin did escape Temporal Judgment at last When David had caused Vriah to be Murdered he did repent of it most deeply and unfeignedly yet God punished him severely as to outward Judgments he saw but few comfortable dayes after that the Sword never departed from his house I have read of a man that fought a Duel and murdered his Adversary who afterwards was very penitent and for several years an eminent instance of exemplary piety but at last he was smitten by the immediate hand of God so as that Blood gushed out of all the passages of his Body and he dyed suddenly The Relator notes upon it that tho' God forgave him as to eternal yet not as to temporal Vengeance But especially Spiritnal Vengeance follows this Sin The Murderers Soul is filled with hellish horrour of heart so that he is as it were Damned above ground and in hell whilst he is yet alive The avenger of blood pursues his soul Murderers have confessed that as soon as ever they had commited the bloody fact they felt the flames of Hell fire in their consciences and this we see in Cain therefore after he had murdered his Brother he cried and roared out that his sin was greater than could be forgiven his punishment greater than could be endured And some think that the mark which the Lord set upon Cain was a gastly guilty Countenance that he had Hell Horror in his countenance as well as in his Conscience And without Repentance everlasting vengeance will follow that Sin. It s said No murderer has eternal life 1. Joh. 3. 15. that is without true Repentance And if he has not eternal life then I am sure he has eternal death and Damnation If the Murderer were only to have the life of his body taken from him tho' in a painful shameful accursed way that were a light matter but there is an eternal Curse a weight of everlasting vengeance heavier than Mountains of Lead that shall press his Soul to death world without end Murder then is a fearful sin Propos 3. The Murderer is to be put to death by the hand of Publick Justice And this confirms the former Propositions concerning the greatness of this Sin. Men may not pardon or remit the Punishment of that Sin. Among the Jews there was no City of Refuge for a wicked or wilful man-slayer and it is said in the 31 verse of this Chapter You shall take no satisfaction for the life of a Murderer which is guilty of death but he shall surely be put to death This sin shall not be satisfyed for with any other punishment but the death of the Murderer There are some Crimes that other punishment less than Death may be accepted of as a Compensation for the wrong done either by some Mulct or Fine in their Estates or some other Coporal Punishment less than death but in case of Murder no Fine or Imprisonment or Banishment or corporal punishment less than death can be accepted You shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer And indeed Equity requires this by the law of Retaliation it is meet that men should be done unto as they have done to others and that as limb should go for limb so Life for Life But besides that there are two Reasons mentioned in the Scripture why the Murderer must be put to Death Reas 1. That so the Land where the murder is committed may be purged from the guilt of Blood. For Murder is such a sin as does pollute the very Land where it is done not only the person that has shed blood is polluted thereby but the whole Land lies under Pollution until such time as Justice is done upon the Murderer Thus in the 33. v. of this Chapter this is given as the Reason why no Satisfaction might be taken for the life of a Murderer so shall ye not pollute the land wherein you are for blood it defileth the land and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it One Murder unpunished may bring guilt a curse upon the whole Land that all the Inhabitants of the Land shall suffer for it So that Mercy to a Murderer is Cruelty to a People Therefore it is said concerning the Murderer Thine eye shall not pity him but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with thee If the Murderer be not punished it may go ill with the Whole all may fare the worse for it if the sin be not duly punished there is a partaking in the guilt of it Reas 2. Because man is made in the Image of God. This reason is mentioned Gen. 9. 6. Whosoever sheddeth mans blood by man i. e. by some man in Authority proceeding in an orderly way of Judicature as the Hebrew Expositors do rightly interpret the words shall his blood be shed for in the Image of God made He him Hence there is Sacrilegious Guilt in this Sin. Amongst the Romans (d) Sueton in Tiber. cap. 58. if a man did but strike his Servant near the place where one of their Emperours lay he was to dye for it because that was look'd upon as