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A28822	A mirrour of mercy and judgement, or, An exact true narrative of the life and death of Freeman Sonds Esquier [sic], sonne to Sir George Sonds of Lees Court in Shelwich in Kent who being about the age of 19, for murthering his elder brother on Tuesday the 7th of August, was arraigned and condemned at Maidstone, executed there on Tuesday the 21. of the same moneth [sic] 1655.	R. B. (Robert Boreman), d. 1675.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3759; ESTC R32573	28,004	41

A MIRROVR OF Mercy and Iudgement OR An Exact true Narrative of the Life and Death of Freeman Sonds Esquier Sonne to Sir George Sonds of Lees Court in Shelwich in Kent Who being about the age of 19. for Murthering his Elder Brother on Tuesday the 7th of August was arraigned and condemned at Maidstone Executed there on Tuesday the 21. of the same Moneth 1655. Deus vindictae gladium Misericordiae oleo perungit James chap. 2. verse 13. For he shall have Judgement without mercy that hath shewed no mercy and Mercy rejoyceth over Judgement LONDON Printed for Thomas Dring and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the George in Fleetstreet neere Cliffords-Inne 1655. TO THE DISCONSOLATE Sr. GEORGE SONDS c. Sad Sir BEing a stranger to your person I shall bee secured I presume from prejudice and freed from the worlds censure whilst it cannot be imagined or said without an high guilt of malice that in compiling this work which I did too at others requests I aimed at any other interest or had any design but onely the glory of God in the manifestation of his mercy and justice I confesse Sir I had a little acquaintance with your mourning penne in a most Christian and Fatherlike letter to your sorrowing condemned Son Dated Aug. 20. wherein you acted the part of a tender Father and more of a Divine as appears by your large and pious exhortations advising him not to despair of mercy and forgivenesse For that mans sinne cannot be so great but God's mercy is greater and that Hell is only full of impenitent souls pressing him to beware of self-deceiving to deal plainly and clearly with his God by judging and condemning himself for his matchlesse sin and not to doubt but upon his humble and hearty sorrow for it he should find that made good to his soul which the Theef upon the Crosse heard from the sweet lips of our Lord Jesus This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Besides this to him I had the sight of two Letters more by you written to the honored Sir Humphrey Tufton Knight and Baronet Sheriffe c. one dated August 15. the other 16. Wherein you did most humbly beg and intreat it is your own phrase that he would be pleased to respite the execution for a short time upon this ground which was the chiefest cause of your earnest request that it might conduce much to the good of your Son 's poor soul And of this you were assured by a few lines from me the night before he should have suffered and so fallen into the bosome of Aeternity which that it might be of joy and everlasting happinesse was the subject of your prayers and pen which joyned issue with our Ministeriall actings and assistances of which he had by Gods blessing a plentifull measure You said well in your Letter to him that it was not all the prayers and tears and cries of all the godly Ministers about him nor the earnest beggings of your selfe his Father nor the Churches publick intercessions which could work his conversion and obtain a pardon for him unlesse his heart went along with ours and combined with our holy endeavours unlesse he begg'd it of God himselfe with earnest supplications you said truely that all would be in vain The hottest Sun cannot make a dead Tree live nor the strongest blowing kindle fire in a dead cole if there be no sap in the root the Sun doth but dry and not enliven the Tree and if no heat of fire lies under the Ashes all the blowings will never make it to burn These are your own words Then bespeaking your Son you adde this I hope thou hast some sparks of grace in Thee though deeply buried under a world of rubbish and I hope all those gody bellowes you mean the breath of the Ministers will blow that away and make thy fire of true repentance and godly sorrow burn clear and make thee able truly to say with the prodigall Father I have sinned against Heaven and against Thee and am no more worthy to be called thy Son Then he will embrace thee in the armes of his mercy he will feast thee in his heavenly mansions and say unto thee Thou wert lost but now art found thou wast dead to sin but now thou art alive in Christ c. Oh happy sadnesse if it produce this joy Oh happy death if it procure thee this blessed life Happy change to leave a sinfull world and a sea of misery to go to an haven of blisse c. These are the breathings of your Soul and as you presaged and wished there we hope your converted Son is now beholding the glorious face of his Lord Jesus Now Sir Who but the malitious who look with a squint eye upon all good intents and actions will not say that you had in you towards your provoking son the same bowells that David had in him towards his Absalom Who can imagine that he can be guilty of discouraging severity to his child to whom he used too much cockering indulgence in his life and of whom he was so charitably carefull and forgiving before his death I confesse that the sweetest Wines turn to the sharpest vinegar and the best love abused into hatred and the worst displeasure An act of disobedience and contempt of command from one whom we have admitted into a deep affection is ever entertain'd with greater dislike repaid with frownes neglect and slighting Thus a command from you his Father in reference to his elder Brother being not obeyed forced you to a paternall severitie to threats c. which were not a sufficient ground to provoke him to that bloody act unlesse a melancholy passion h being deeply in love with a fair Gentlewrman together with a Diabolicall suggestion had Gods grace for a time deserting him possessed his heart and carried on his hand to attempt and act so horrid a sin Sir You do like a Christian in the close of your Letter to him in charging your selfe with a fault for which it may be God brought on you this heavy judgment It was old Elie's sin your too much softnesse and gentlenesse Do so no more my Son was Eli's 1 Sam. 2.14 the same your oft and soft expression as you attest to him You say You ought to have gone higher and I believe you did when you went to your heavenly Father by prayer for amending what was amisse in him but to go higher in passion might have made you fallen lower in his and your friends este●m And it is a piece of your Sonnes glory that in all his sufferings restraints and high provocations from one of your unworthy servants he never discovered any passion or impatience but meekly with a composed countenance used to pray for him and the rest of his barbarous revilers and say God forgive them A moderate correction and reproofe carried on with moderation becomes the persons of Masters to their Servants Tutors to their Pupills

Heavenly Father and thine by redemption O most gracious Redeemer Lord Jesus Christ receive my soul at its departure out of my body and strengthen me O God the Holy Ghost the comforter that I may encounter with death cheerfully and tast of that bitter cup gladly of which my Saviour hath drunk deep before and for me and suckt the poyson out of it so that I believe it shall onely prove a wholsom potion to release me from the power of sin to redeem me from misery and to restore my soul to an everlasting life in Glory Which God of his infinite mercy vouchsafe unto me for the merits of my Lord Jesus This prayer is the very sense of my soul and the desire of my mournfull heart FREEMAN SONDS A Miscellanie of divers remarkable passages and practises of Mr. Freeman Sonds and others during his imprisonment Written by a Godly and learned Divine Mr. Theophilus Higgons Rector of Hunton nere Maidston and delivered to me Aug. 23. who have as he desired in his letter inserted some particulars to his observations Sect. 1. IT is generally reported in Maidstone concerning Sir George Sonds the Father of Master Freeman that no Religious duties have been performed in his Family Master Freeman Sonds told me that by this report his Father was greatly wronged for it was a constant course said he in our Family that after Supper my Brother read a Chapter in the Bible one night and I another by my Fathers appointment afterwards he said prayers himselfe all the servants being present This also is constantly affirmed since by Master Charnock Sir George his Setward who hath dwelt with him twenty years and saith farther that besides the former publick duty his Master prayed by himselfe privately Prayers also as he saith were often said before dinner So then we must not impute that bloody act of the young Gentleman so much to a want of Education in Religion as to a want of grace for the present which God did withdraw from him for a time when he was under a strong temptation and without which grace supporting and preventing us the Best may fall into the Worst of sinnes so that the most fortified Christian being weak if we respect his naturall condition may rightly and to Gods glory say with Saint Austin C. 6. Soliloq Tentator defuit et ut deesset tu fecisti locus et tempus defu●t et ut deessent tu fecisti Affuit tentator non defuit locus non defuit tempus sed ut non consentirem tu me tenuisti Lord the Tempter time and opportunitie of place was wanting and all these were so by thy grace and blessing The Tempter came and assaulted my infirmity I wanted not opportunity of time and place yet that I should not consent to him Thy goodness prevented me Blessed be the Lord for his grace and mercy Let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he fall A proud presumption and want of pitty to others is the first step to ruine and miserie in our selves Item Whereas some in Maidstone reported that Sir George Sonds in his Letters to his Son Freeman being in durance at Maidstone did not reprove as he ought his sonnes great offence but daub'd it over c. This report is malitious and false for in his first Letter about August 13. and in his second August 20. the day before his Sons execution he wrote very sharply and fully to him about the greatnesse of his sin and stirr'd him to a very deep repentance with serious and hearty prayers to God in his behalf This appears by his words cited in the Epistle of this book S. 2. MAster Freeman Sonds hath been loaded here with many grievous calumniations It was reported that he being at first committed to the common Gaole August 8. Wine was sent for him and divers Gentlemen with him drank freely he shewing no signe of repentance or remorse for his great offence I charged him with it his answer was and it was true confirmed by some of the said Gentlemen that they had not one drop of Wine nor any Beer and that for his part he who was of the temper of those Rechabites Jer. 35.6 drank no Wine nor strong Beer at any time This is most true of him as the other report's most false comming from the father of lies who is too busie in the hearts and tongues of the men of this Age who reported likewise most falsely that the Devill appeared to Master Freeman Sonds in a visible shape and that he had a conference with him This was strongly denyed by the young Gentleman two howers before he dyed who said he was only overcome by a strong suggestion from that old Serpent the enemy of mankind Let those that report such things maliciously beware lest for their uncharitablenesse God give them up also to Satan who may tempt them to commit the like or a worse sin Item It was reported here that for the space of three or foure years he had never taken a Bible into his hands and had no sign of Religion I asked him of it his answer was as before Sect. 1. that every second night he read a Chapter in the Bible and surely he had it then in his hands besides many other times but to have it in the hands is nothing unlesse a man have it with delight and love in his heart And as he ever prayed with his Father at night so Master Charnock aforesaid assured me that when they went to bed in two severall Chambers his Brother and he did upon their knees at their bed-side pray unto God in private and this was their constant course by imitation or injunction from their Father And it is farther testified by George Guthbert of little Chart who had the custody of him at the house of Master Foster Keeper of the Prison and truckled under him every night from August 8. to August 21. when he dyed that Master Freeman Sonds did duly every morning as soon as he arose and every night before he went to bed fall down upon his knees at his beds-side and prayed by himselfe Also I testifie that I saw a very good Prayer-book which he brought in his pocket to Maidstone the Title of it is Crums of Comfort a book full of good instructions and divine meditations Printed the thirty sixth time and many can witnesse upon their knowledge that being in the Keepers house he did read the Scripture and the Practise of Piety every day especially that content of the joyes of Heaven S. 3. AND as touching his disposition I found that true which was commonly reported by his friends that as he was no Drinker so no sweater no curser no lyar nor prophane in his conversation He resolved to fast on every Tuesday so long as he lived because on that day his Brother was murthered and could hardly be induc'd to eate that Tuesday night which was before the Wednesday morning on which day he should have suffered if