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A91651 The Repenting sinner pardoned being a brief relation of the wicked life, and penitent pious death of James Wilson of Wolverhampton in Stafford-shire, who died February 21. 1668 / made publick by such as were ear and eye witnesses of the same, for a warning to such as live ungodly. Wilson, James, d. 1668. 1669 (1669) Wing R1046C; ESTC R42561 8,330 31

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THE REPENTING SINNER Pardoned BEING A Brief Relation of the Wicked Life and Penitent Pious Death of James Wilson of Wolverhampton in Stafford-shire who died February 21. 1668. Made publick by such as were Ear and Eye Witnesses of the same For a warning to such as live ungodly Prov. 28.13 He that covereth his Sins shall not prosper but who so confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy LONDON Printed for Nevil Simmons at the three Crowns at Holborn Conduit 1669. The Repenting Sinner pardoned c. GOD hath several wayes to convince the world of the Evil of Sin and of the excellency safety and goodness of his holy wayes Amongst the rest this is one which sometimes the useth in a place where sin is countenanced and godliness decryed disowned and reproached He maketh the mouths of the most vile if any have been more vile than others to prclaim before they die with the greatest seriousness and sin abhorrency the odiousness of the sins they have lived in and perswade with the most powerfull perswasions all about them to loath and leave the same And as seriously doth his goodness make them own the scorn'd at and despised wayes of godliness and as earnestly perswade others to them which the Lord doth as in mercy to the sinner himself so also that such as have been Companions in the same impieties may be warned by the mouth of their Leader to renounce the sins they have lived in and to follow him in repentance as they followed him in sin whilest the Penitent lives and warns his ungodly fellows with his own tongue they seem to regard and possibly may have some toughts of returning to God but when the Preacher of repentance hath his mouth shut up and he is silent and cold in his grave they let slip all thoughts of reformation and begin afresh to pursue their lusts and wear off the fears they had of God's Anger for sin and leave their short loathing of their wicked wayes and as greedily return to their wayes of folly as if they never had a call or cause to leave them It is undoubtedly the duty of all but especially of those that abide in sin and scorn at the wayes and means of holiness to regard the warnings they have from the mouths of their Companions who have tasted of the sweetness of sin have known the best of it and at a dying hour when they should be wisest have declared thir Judgement concerning the wayes of sin and the wayes of God And it is the concernment of every living man to remember and to lay to heart the Councels of dying men and the conclusion of their time and life especially of such as have been visible open known and noted for the common vices and faults of mankind and have the grace given them of the Lord to see the evil thereof The sense of our duty herein hath occasioned this ensuing Narrative IN Wolverhampton in Stafford-shire there dwelt a young man a Widows Son whose Father and Grand-Father had owned and walked in the wayes of God and left many Prayers on record for their posterity His Name was James Wilson about twenty four years of age one that had degenerated from the wayes of his forefathers and spent his time in fulfilling the lusts of his flesh following the sins of Drunkenness Sabbath-breaking Swearing and all manner of debauchery He delighted not in following his Calling diligently but was given to Cocking and Company-keeping he was a scorner at godliness and a Jeerer at those that served God and a reproacher of his Sister and such as desired to fear the Lord and serve him He was very froward and ill-natured cross and dogged to those in the Family and led them very uncomfortable lives but he was very courteous and pleasing to strangers and to the Neighbours that his Companions much delighted in him and were glad of his Company when he was sober In these prophane wayes he lived seldom coming to the publick worship of God or minding the service of God in private though he could read if he pleased but his heart was hardned against God and godliness Upon the 14. day of February 1668. he was according to his usual manner vainly passing away the day of the Lord in folly and vanity without any sense of God upon him or regard of the Life to come In the beginning of the Week he was sent to Stafford Fair where he was very wet and waded coming home but he came home on the Wednesday night on the Thursday his friends perceived some trouble upon him he went to the Shop where he wrought and told them there that he was a dead man and bad them farewell He came home again and told his friends that he thought he should not live but they believed him not He passed that day very seriously and seemed to have much affliction on his Spirit and the assurance he had on his heart of death approaching made him restless On the Friday morning some of our godly Neighbours came in and fell into discourse with him about eternal things and the Judgement Day to come and minding him of a passage they had heard in a Sermon preach't on the Lord's day by an ejected Minister in that Town How terrible a thing it was to a wicked man to arise and come to Judgement and how comfortable it would be to the righteous who should be as bold as a Lion then he began to weep and shake his head and was wofully disturbed at their discourse And when his Neighbours w●● away he earnestly desired their Prayers and he cast himself upon his bed most part of that day in a restless condition on Saturday morning his bed-fellow arose and lighted him a Candle and to him he began to impart his trouble and told him he had been a great sinner and would fain have Christians to pray for him and also he said he had been in Prayer to God for mercy the most part of that Night now he begns to pray and also he desired his Sister to arise and make him a fire and reach him a Bible and she did gladly Who as soon as he had the Bible he fell a reading and a crying And so he read wept and wept and read till morning Sometime he would read a good while and then lay down the Bible and weep most bitterly and could read no more a while When it was day-light he lay on his bed with much affliction and horror for his sin upon him all the morning At last h●●●ould hold in his Sin no longer but opened his mind to his Sister and said Oh my dear Sister what a grievous wicked sinner have I been Oh! I have been as wicked a drunken swearing Rogue as ever lived the earth never bare so vile a wretch Oh Sister is there any mercy for me She told him that if he did now repent from the bottom of his heart for his Sin there was hope He fell a weeping grievously