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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

if I do it not Bestow one look in the first place on your selvs upon your own most rueful 〈◊〉 Fears O ponder on the hideous do●●ful pligh● which by your Iniquities you have ●unk your selves into and with an Anguish of Soul speak to your selvs in such Soli-loquies as these Ah wo is me In the Fruition of God is enwrapped all my happiness without this O Lord what will become of me for evermore But never was there a more lamentably forsaken Soul than I. The Terrible God at whose Rebuke● the Everla●●ing Rocks are tumbled down and the mountainous Pillars of heaven tremble He is such an Adversary to me that if I do not agree quickly with ●lim never-ceasing Tormentors will take me into their unpittying hands I have like a Fool in whom folly was exalted horribly provoked him by my sins that are as many as the Sands as mighty as the Hills that over-top the Clouds I am hereupon justly already smitten with spiritual plagues justly given over into the clutches of the red roaring Dragons devouring Lions whom I have most fondly hearkned unto Yea I see the dreadful Gulf below gaping for me I see my self ready to be prey'd upon by the worm that dyes not by the fire which never shall be quenched Nor can I by any means pluck my self out from this horrible Pit this miery clay Alas What shall I do O wretchman that I am who shall deliver me Let your second Head of Meditation hereupon be an I May. Think with your selvs I May look to Jesus Christ O hear him crying to you from the fragrant Tops of the Spicy Mountains as in Hos 13. 9. O Soul thou hast destroy'd thy self but in Me is thy help Don't let your Imaginations be that There is no hope No reserve now anoth●● look for Jesus Christ as the Moses sent by God to draw you out from black floods of your perplex●●●●s Now refresh your selvs with this Reflection That there is such an one as the God-man Jesus Christ to goe unto and so say t is possible that I may live Say now with your selvs But is there no hope in Israel concerning me yes I see a door of hope My God may become my Friend and His Foe MAY become His child yet for all this Yet may I glorify Him enjoy Him forever The Son of God is become the Son of man a Dayes-man between God man. It has pleas'd the Father that in him should all fulness dwell and it hath pleased Himself to engage in the blessed work of bringing God and man together Neither will I undervalue Him so much as to count that any of my streights are too difficult for Him to meddle with or that any of my Faults will cause him to reject the Supplications that his Spirit shall help me to come before him with No No when I am about to say unto him Lord If thou wilt tho● canst save me His preventing Goodness sayes to me Soul if thou wilt I will. Then I will no longer pine away in mine Iniquities but look unto Him immediately Having got thus far Then 2. Cry to Heaven that you may be Enabled to Look unto the Lord Jesus Christ The Case is so that you cannot look unto Jesus Christ until you see that you cannot look Never will you aright look unto Jesus Christ if you do it not with Sentiments a kin to that in Joh. 6. 44. No man 〈◊〉 come or look unto Jesus Christ except the Father draw him No we have bin told by the heavenly Records concerning this Look of Faith that it is the gift of God. That it is the Operation of GOD and that it is caused by the mighty power of God. It was asked of old in Joh. 6. 44. How can ye believe Such an humbling Quaere should you put unto your selves How can I look unto Jesus Christ Certainly you can as easily make Iron swim and ponderous Mountains to fly like Atoms about the Air and bulky Rocks to place themselves among the shining stars in the Firmament of God as look unto Jesus Christ by any Abilities of your own If you would not have your Faith prove a Cobweb in the day when the fiery Beesom of Destruction shall sweep the world you must first say with him in 1 sal 40. 12. I am not able to look up Now with a bleeding soul on the precipeice of an inevitable Hell make your moans as the man did in Mar. 9. 24. Lord help my unbelief Now say O Lord I must believe or dy I may believe and live but I cannot O I cannot Do thou draw me do thou turn me or I shall yet miscarry Doe thou work this work of thine own in me and for me so the whole of my Salvation will at length redound to thy Honour Not unto me not unto me but unto Thee O Lord will be all the Glory Hereupon Labour to look as well as you can unto Jesus Christ for All that Salvation which He has to confer upon you There is a probable likelyhood that the issue of your struggling after faith may be this That the Lord Jesus Christ will say unto you as once unto deceased Lazarus O thou dead Soul arise Watch now to follow him as Peter did the Angel in Act 12. 9. till you have got out of the Goal which you have on a Light fire over your heads T is possible and more than so that Jesus Christ may now do by you as he did to that man in Marc. 8. 25. when He put His hands upon his eyes and made him look up Now now profess unto the Lord Jesus Christ as did Jehoshaphat long ago in 2. Chron. 20. 12. I know not what to do O Lord but my eyes are up unto thee O say to him Lord I look unto Thee for for thy Salvation yea as the Hart panteth after the water brooks so does my soul after Thee O Saviour I do heartily close with Thee as the Surety of the New everlasting Covenant which is made between the Frst Being my soul and I wait upon Thee for the Communication of all the sure mercies which belong unto it But in doing thus have a special Regard to this That you do not retain a Prejudice against any part Part of the Salvation which you ought to be desireous of O don't look a squint when you look unto Jesus Christ Don't divide his saving Offices His saving Kindnesses but with a single eye say Lord be all that to me which thou art to any of thy chosen ones Hath the Lord said of Him in Psal 110 4. Thou art a Priest forever Now do you answer Lord I consent to have Jesus Christ on my behalf a Priest whose Obedience Inetrcession shall take away all Controversies between Thee me Has the Lord said of him in Act. 3. 22. A Prophet shall the Lord raise up unto you Do you answer Lord let Jesus Christ be my

that fear why then saith Christ Give it me while it is yet thy own soul and thou art possessor of it let me have it alienated unto Me it is indeed a silly sorry guilty bloody soul but be it as it is give it me I know how to take wash cleanse keep save it Don't deny me I have often asked thy heart soul of thee and could never yet get a grant of thee I ask it once more and it is one of the last times that I shall ask it and I came this day into this Ordinance on purpose to be spake thy soul that I may have it for my self and save it for thee Why thus is Christ urging intreating pleading with thee even forceing himself upon thee by His Importunity How canst thou send Him away grieved for want of His Errand Especially consider that if thou do not voluntarily freely Oh pray hard that in this day of power He will make thy soul a willing soul give thy soul to Christ presently the Devil will have it quickly whether thou wilt or no. Thou hast then before thee this one great Duty of Beleeving and He sayes to thee this day only believe and that 's my great Counsel in His Name If thou ask What is Believing on Christ 1 Answer It is for a poor sinning damned soul that is past standing in himself humbly to fall down before him and prostrate it self at His feet that He may save it It is to commit thy soul into the hands of Christ believing that He is able to keep what thou hast committed to Him until that Day I am informed that thou didst this morning hear a precious Discourse in another Congregation from that most suitable and seasonable Text Isai 45. 22. Look unto me and be ye saved all ye ends of the earth Why that is Beleeving viz. Looking to Jesus for Salvation Looking to and taking Him as thy Lord and Saviour One such humble hearty Look will save thee which if thou canst but do before thou go'st out of this world then those that have bin affectionately and sincerely looking up to God for thee shall find thee to their great Joy Comfort at the right hand of Christ in the day of His appearing among those sheep that heard His voice and followed Him tho' thou didst never hear him till one of the last of his voices nor follow him at all unless it were with some of thy latest Steps And it will be magnifyed Mercy amazing Mercy if it be so The Lord grant it may be so Only remember also that is no easy matter to believe no easy matter to repent and if thou know'st ought of the nature of each thou hast experienced it so to be Faith and Repentance are the gift of Christ ask them of Him and be well assur'd that He is more ready to give than thou art to ask And if the Lord help thee now to believe i. e. to receive and take up with Christ as thy Lord Saviour thou shalt give glory to God by believing and the Lord will account Himself by the righteousness of Christ which by Faith thou laidst hold on abundantly satisfyed for all the Dishonour thou hast done to Him all thy dayes Now if any thing will break a hard heart sure it is the affectionate warming yea melting Offers of the Grace of Christ in the Gospel unto a Person so vile that might be ready enough to fear he had sinn'd himself into an estate beneath out of the reach of Mercy And Oh be speedy about this work almost all thy dayes are rolled away in Gods anger thou mayst count the few hours that are left thee don't lose an hour a Minute spend every one of them seriously in Reading Meditation Prayer good Discourse Asking Questions of and Hearing Counsel from any that are concern'd for thy soul Let it appear to all that look on thee that after so much mispence loss of precious time the scarcity of it has raised the price with thee Unto thee may it be most truly said Now or Never And because he desires it bear with me while I offer a Word of Warning Council to others And it is commendable to see such a person desireous to have his Companions in sin warned Are there any that hear me and I wish there were not many who are guilty of Lying Cursing Swearing Drunkenness let me say to you You may not expect to have any come from the dead to warn you but here is one that is just going to the dead who bequeathes you this Warning lest you also be in like manner hung up as Monuments of God's wrath God is picking him out and seting him forth to be an Example unto you Jude 7. He might as righteously have left some of you to have bin examples unto him and others but unto the holy Soveraign Counsel of God it has seemed meet to take him and leave you and in taking him has left you that solemn warning which if you take it not shall be a Testimony against you in that Day And because he in his Writing desir'd me that I would speak something to Young men I would also desire them especially to mind what is said tho' as it concerns all let every one take his portion See wither lesser sins will lead you even unto greater till at last you come to the Great Transgression Your frequent swallowing of Gnats will make you not to stick at Camels Custom of sin will take away Conscience of Sin and when Conscience of sin is gone what sin is there that you are not ready for I shall speak a few words to each of those Sins which he Wills them a Warning against Cursing Swearing begin to grow common in this Land. It was not so in our first dayes I lived near 20 years in this Countrey before I heard an Oath or a Curse But now as you pass along in the streets you may hear children curse and Swear and take the great dreadful Name of God in vain They have learnt it from elder persons Wo to those that taught them if they repent not The Lord will not hold you guiltless You shall answer not only for your own Oaths Curses Blasphemings of God's Name but for the sins of those Children whom you have taught yea made to sin It has alwayes bin the great design of Satan to debauch the Professors of Religion hence he suggested to Balaam the Counsel which he gave to Balak to draw Israel unto sin to debauch the Youth and then he need not hire any to curse them because their holy God would be wroth with them and its dreadful to think what success the Instruments of the Devil have had of late years in this Land. Those that vainly swear let 'em read what Jesus Christ the Judg of all saith and He is a Judge that stands at the door and heares and is ready to judge both the

Speakest thou not unto me knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee have power to release thee But it is more fitly spoken by Jesus Christ unto you Knowest thou not that I have power to destroy thee soul body in hell forevermore knowest thou not that if thou passest a day or two more without a due regard unto me thou canst not be saved therefrom tho' the life of all the Angels in heaven should be proffered for thy ransom and speakest tho● not unto Me O thou deplorable soul speak and seek and look unto Him as for Life eternal May last Request unto you is O give get all the Honour you can unto that Jesus from whom you look for your Salvation While you are secking to look well unto Him O see that you speak well of Him and do well for Him until you shall speak and do be among the living on the earth no more Surely you have by presumptious things enough reproached him already The sharp Ax of Civil Justice will speedily cut you down O for a little good fruit before the blow Manifest your penitence for your Iniquities by a due care to excel in tempers quite contrary to those ill Habits and customs whereby you have heretofore blasphemed the worthy Name of Christ Christianity Especially employ the last minutes of your Life in giving a zealous Warning unto others to take need of those things which have bin destructive unto you Tell them what wild Gourds of death they are by which you have got your Bane point out before them those pathes of the destroyer which have led you down so near unto the Congregation ●f the dead When the numerous croud of spectators are 3 or 4 days hence thronged about the place where you shall then breathe your last before them all then do you with the heart-piercing groans of a deadly wounded man 〈◊〉 of your follow-sinners that they would turn new every one from the evil of his way Beseech of them to keep clear of ill Haunts ill Houses with as much dread of them as they could have of lying down in a nest of poisonful Snakes Beseech of them to abhor all Vncleanness as they would the deep ditch which the abhorred of the Lord do fall into Beseech of them to avoid all Excess in Drinking as they would not rott themselves with more bitter Liquors than the Waters of Jealousie Beseech of them to moderate and mortifie all inordinate Passions as they would not surrender themselves into the hands of Devils that will hurry them down into deeper Deeps than they are aware Beseech of them to Shun idle Swearing as a Prophanity that the GOD to whom Vengeance belongeth will not permit to go unpunished Beseech of them to avoid Curses on themselves or others lest while they like Mad-men so throw about fire-brands arrows death they bring upon their own heads as you have done the things which they are apt rashly to be wishing of Beseech of them to beware of Lying as they would not be put to need crave be denied a drop of water to cool their tongues in the place of Torment Beseech of them to be as averse to all Stealing as they would be to carry coals of fire into the Nests that they so feather by their dishonesty Beseech of them to prize the means of Grace to sleep At or keep from Sermons no more to love the Habitation of God's house and the place where His Honour dwels lest God do soon send their froward barren souls to dwell in silence where there never shall be a Gospel-Sermon heard never never as long as the Almighty sits upon His Chrystal Throne And when you have given these Warnings upon the Ladder from whence you shall not come off without taking an irrecoverable step into eternity O remember still you give unto Jesus Christ the honour of LOOKING to Him for His Salvation Remember that if you would do a work highly for the honour of Him This is The work of God that you Believe on Him. Even after your eyes are so covered as to take their leave of all sights below still continue LOOKING unto Him whom you have heard saying Look unto Me. And now let the Everlasting Saviour LOOK down in much mercy on you O that He would give this Murderer and extraordinary Sinner a place among the Wonders of free Grace O that this wretched man might be made meet for the Inheritance with the Saints in Light being kept from such an unrepenting and deluded heart as unquenchable fire will find Fuel in And be thou pleased O Holy Lord God Almighty to sanctifie this Example so that the Sinners in this Zion may be afraid that Fearfulness may surprise the Hypocrites thereof and they may all hear and fear and do wickedly no more Amen Amen AN EXHORTATION To A CONDEMNED MALEFACTOR Delivered March the 7th 1686. By JOSHVA MOODY Preacher of the Gospel at Boston in New-England Ezek. 33. 9. If thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it if he do not turn from his way he shall dy in his iniquity but thou shalt deliver thy soul Josh 7. 19. Give glory to the God of Israel and make Confession to Him and tell me what thou hast done Isai 55. 7. Seek the Lord while he may be found call ye upon him while he is near Let the wicked forsake his Way and the unrighteous man his Thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and He will have mercy upon him and to our God for He will abundantly pardon Printed at BOSTON by R. P. Anno 1687. To the Reader IT was the Motion of many and the Importunity of some that drew from me my consent to make this almost extemporary discourse thus public The Prisoner sent to me on the After-noon before the Sabbath a writing under his hand wherein he own'd the Justice of God in bringing him to this untimely End and the Righteousness of the Sentence of Man upon him together with a Confession of those sins that he had lived in all his dayes of which there is something spoken in the Sequel adding 2 Requests viz. that I would take some Notice of him in my Sermon and that I would give warning to those of his Follow-Siners that had been guilty of the like evils lest they also become like monuments of divine Justice Such reasonable requests especially from a dying man I could not deny My Subject that day was Isa 12. 1. and my Business at that time to discourse of the necessity means marks of the turning away of God's Anger which I judged not unsutable for a person in his condition accordingly did as there was occasion apply my self particularly to him in my Sermon which is not so proper to insert here What was directly spoken to himself or to others at his desire so far at least as my memory would serve me is committed to the Press and added as an

for being wicked over much There is hardly any sort of Wickedness which you have not wallowed in-That sin particularly which you are now to die for is a most monstrous Crime I can't possibly describe or declare the sins whereby you have made your self an astonishing Example of Impiety punishment Mor. O Sir I have bin a most hellish sinner I am sorry for what I have bin Min. Sorry you say well tell me which of all your sins you are now most sorry for which lyes most heavy Mor. I hope I am sorry for all my sins but I must especially bewail my neglect of the means of grace On Sabbath dayes I us'd to lye at home or be ill imploy'd elsewhere when I should have bin at Church This has undone me Min. And let me seriously tell you Your Despiseing of Christ is a most dreadful sin indeed You have for whole years together had the Call of Jesus Christ to seek an Interest in him you would now give all the world for that interest but you would take no notice of him The Jews of Old put him to a worse death than yours will be this afternoon and by your contempt of Christ you have said the Jews did well to do so How justly might he now Laugh at your Calamity And for these sins of yours besides the direful woes plagues that have already come upon you you are now expos'd unto the Vengeance of eternal fire You are in danger of being now quickly cast into those exquisite amazing Torments in comparison of which the anguishes which your body ever did feel or shall feel before night or can ever feel are just nothing at all and these dolorous torments are such as never have an End as many sands as could lie between this earth the Stars in Heaven would not be near so many as the Ages the end-less Ages of these Torments Mor. But is there not Mercy for me in Christ Min. Yes and its a wonderful thing that I have now further to tell you Mind I entreat you The SON of GOD is become the Son of Man the Lord Jesus Christ is both God man in one Person he is both sufficiently able willing also to be your Saviour He lived a most righteous life and this was that such as you I might be able to say before God Lord accept of me as if I had liv'd righteously He died at length a most cursed death and this was that we might be able to say unto God Lord let not me die for sin since thy Son has died in my room This glorious Redeemer is now in the highest heaven pleading with God for the Salvation of His chosen ones And He pours out his Spirit continually upon them that do believe on him might you then be enabled by his grace to carry your poor guilty condemned enslaved ignorant soul unto Jesus Christ and humbly put your trust in him for deliverance from the whole bad state which you are brought into Oh then his voice is to you the same that was to the penitent Thief This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Mor. Oh that I might be so Sir I would hear more of these things I think I can't better fit my self for my death than by hearkning to these things Min. Attend then The never-dying spirit that lodges within you must now within a few minutes appear before the Tribunal of the Great GOD in what or in whose Righteousness will you then appear will you have this to be your Plea Lord I experienced many good Motions Desires in my soul many Sorrows for my sin before I dy'd or will you expect to have no other Plea but This Lord I am vile but thy Son is a Surety for the worst of sinners that believe in him for his sake alone have MERCY on me Morg. I thank God for what He has wrought in my Soul Min. But be very careful about this matter if you build on your own good Affections instead of Jesus Christ the only Rock if you think they shall recommend you to God He that made you will not have mercy on you Mor. I would be clothed with the Righteousness of JESUS CHRIST Min But you can't sincerely desire that Christ should justify you if you don 't also desire that He should sanctify you those 2 alwaies go together Is evry lust that has hitherto had possession of your heart become so loathsom to you that it would fill your soul with joy to hear Jesus Christ say I will subdue those Iniquities of thine I will make a holy heavenly a spiritually minded person of thee Mor. I would sin against God no more Min. But I must deal plainly with you You have made it sadly suspicious that your repentance is not yet as it ought to be when men truly throughly repent of sin they use to be in a special manner watchful against that Sin which has bin their chief Sin one of your principal sins which has indeed brought you to the Death of a Murderer is Passion unmortifi'd outragious Passionateness Now I have been this day informed that no longer since than the last night upon some Dissatisfaction about the place which the Authority hath ordered you by and by to be buried in you did express your self with a most unruly Passionateness Mor. Sir I confess it and I was quickly sorry for it tho' for the present I was too much disturbed 'T was my folly to be so careful about the place where my body should be laid when my precious SOUL was in such a Condition Min. Truly you have cause to mourn for it Secure the welfarre of your soul and this now pinion'd hang'd vile body of yours will shortly be raised unto glory glory forevermore And let me put you in mind of one thing more I doubt you han't yet laid aside your unjust Grudges against the Persons concerned in your Conviction Condemnation You have no cause to complain of them and you are not fit to pray much less are you fit to dye till you heartily wish them as well as your own soul if you die malicious you die miserable Mor. I heartily wish them all well I bear Ill-will to none What a lamentable thing is this Ah this is that which has brought me hither Min. What do you mean Mor. I over-heard a man mocking scoffing at me when I stumbled just now he does very ill I have done so my self I have mock'd scoff'd like that man and see what it hath brought me to he may come to the like Min. The Lord forgive that foolish hard-hearted creature But be not too much disturbed Mor. Yonder I am now come in sight of the place where I must immediately end my dayes Oh what a huge Multitude of people is come together on this occasion O Lord O Lord I pray thee to make my Death profitable to all this Multitude of People that they may not sin