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A76061	A murderer punished and pardoned, or, A true relation of the wicked life, and shameful-happy death of Thomas Savage imprisoned, justly condemned, and twice executed at Ratcliff, for his bloody fact in killing his fellow-servant, on Wednesday, Octob. 28, 1668 / by us who were often with him in the time of his imprisonment in Newgate, at at his execution, Robert Franklin, Thomas Vincent, Thomas Doolitel, James Janeway, Hugh Baker ; to which is annexed a sermon preached at his funeral.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.; Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.; Franklin, Robert, 1630-1684.	1679 (1679)	Wing A997A; ESTC R42788	47,969	54

would certainly be inflicted upon him that he had but a few VVeeks more to live and then he would be Tryed and Condemned and Executed but they told him that the punishment of the temporal Death was but small in comparison with the punishment of eternal Death in Hell which he had deserved and was exposed unto They told him that so long as Death should make a separation between his Soul and body that his Soul must immediately appear before the dreadful Tribunal of the Sin revenging God and there receive its final doom and be irreversibly sentenced to depart from the presence of the Lord into everlasting fire if he were found under the guilt of this or any other sin They asked him if he knew what Hell was telling him what a fearful thing it would be for him to fall into the hands of the living God how intolerable the immediate expressions of Gods Wrath would be upon his Soul what horror and anguish he would there be filled withal and how he would be bound up in Chains of darkness until the Judgment of the great day and then told him of the glorious appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ to Judgment that soul and body should be then joyned together and condemned together and punished together with such exquisite torments as never entred into the heart of man to concieve declaring the extremity and the Eternity of the torments of hell which were the just demerit of his sins Then they asked him whether he had any hopes of escaping this dreadful punishment of hell He answered that he had they enquired into the grounds of his hopes He told them that he repented of his fault and hoped God would have mercy on his soul They asked him whether he thought his Repentance could procure for him a Pardon He knew no other way They told him that God was just and his justice must be satisfied and there was no way for him to do it but by undergoing the Eternal torments of Hell and did he know no way of satisfying God's justice besides and pacifying his anger that was kindled against him No he knew not any and yet did he hope to be saved He answered yes They enquired whether ever he had experience of a gracious change wrought in him Herein he could give no account and yet hoped to be saved They told him his hopes were unfound having no good foundation and he would find himself disappointed that it was not his repentance his tears and prayers though he ought to use them as means that would save him if he fixed the Anchor of his hope upon them That if he hoped to be saved in the condition which for the present he was in he would certainly be damned that he must cast away all those groundless hopes he had conceived and endeavour to despair in himself that being pricked and pained at heart through the apprehensions of the wrath of God ready to fall upon him and seeing no possibility of flying and escapeing if he looked onely to himself he might cry out VVhat shall I do to be saved and enquire after a Saviour and then they spake to him of the Lord Jesus Christ and the way of salvation by him which before he was sottishly ignorant of as if he had been brought up in a Country of Infidels and not of Christians The words spoken to him by these two Ministers seemed to take little impression upon him whilst they were present yet after they were gon the Lord did begin to work and he did acknowledge to Mr. B. that two had been with him he knew not their names whose words were like arrows shot into his heart and he did wish he had those words in writing especially one expression of T. V. That he would not be in his condition for ten thousand Worlds did affect and affright him that he said it made his hair stand an end An account of a Discourse betwixt T. D. and T. S. about fourteen dayes after he was Prisoner in Newgate VVHen I came to him and saw him in Irons I said were these Fetters for the sake of the Gospel they would be far more precious than chains of Gold but see here the cursed Fruits of sin thou that shouldst all thy life-time have been a faithful servant of God hast neglected no time to serve the Devil I asked him how old he was He said sixteen years old I told him he was a young man but an old sinner then I began to set my self to bring him to a sense of his sins and of his miserable and lost estate and asked him Whether he belived there was a God He answered Yes and dost thou believe that this God is true He said Yes and taking up the Bible I asked him Dost thou believe that this is the Word of God He answered Yes then I told him according to this word he was a damned wretch and God had past a sentence of death upon him and told him plainly that he should not enter into the Kingdom of God but be a Companion of Devils in a Lake of brimstone to all Eternity meaning without Repentance conversion and Faith in Christ Then I turned him to several Scriptures and told him This was the word by which he must be judged at the barr of God and be damned or saved according as then he should be found to be converted or unconverted The Scriptures were as followeth 1 Cor. 6. 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind Verse 10. Nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilers nor Extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God Another Scripture I read to him was Gal. 5. 19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Lasciviousness v. 20. Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies v. 21. Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revellings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God The next Scripture to the same purpose was Rev. 21. 8. But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all lyars shall have there part in the Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death I told him these were the words of the holy true and infallible God this was the sentence which God had passed upon him as the desert of those abominable sins which he was guilty of for these Scriptures pointed at several of the sins which he confessed he had lived in and had committed as drunkenness lying uncleanness and murther I cryed you confess your self guilty of these sins and that God threatneth you with Eternal death with everlasting torments and exclusion from his presence and Kingdom not only Gods Justice but

for me Well I know God loves I am sure God loves me When he was in prayer some of us heard him say Now Lord I am coming to thee thou art mine and Christ is mine and what need I be afraid of Death Lord give me some sense and some sign of thy love that when my soul shall be separated from my body it may be received into glory Afterwards when he looked upon his Cloaths he had put on to dye in said What have I got on my dying-cloaths dying-cloaths did I say they are my living-cloaths the cloaths out of which I shall go into eternal glory they are the best cloaths that ever I put on About four of the Clock in the morning we went up to him again full of expectation what we would say to us and what we should hear from him and T. D. stood behind him and took his expressions as he spake them from his own mouth and first he told us I account it a great mercy that God hath shewed me the evil of sin before he cast me into Hell sin hath not only brought my body to the grave but my soul in danger of everlasting burning The Lord will have mercy on me I hope I am filled with joy I am no more afraid to die than to stand in this place the Lord make me thankful The Lord hath been working on my soul for it was not I that could pray nor refrain from company nor delight in any thing that is good I have cause to bless God that ever I was taken and this we have often heard him say for if I had escaped I had gone on in my sin and might have lost my soul for ever One asked him which he thought was worse hell or sin using some gesture of body said Hell is very dreadful but sin is worse then hell because sin brings mens souls to hell and sin is that which offendeth God One asked him what he thought of Heaven and he with a smiling countenance said Heaven it cannot be but heaven must be an excellent place for it is an holy place We spake to him concerning his Coffin that was by him whether it did not trouble and amaze him to have it in his sight he replyed with all my soul I coul go into my Coffin oh it is a comfortable place he spake it with joy I can comfortably dye I have found such a deal of joy and comfort that I would not for a world have been without it We enquired whether death did not affright him morning light will presently appear He answered Death indeed did trouble me but now not at all I long for day I am not daunted at death Dye it is nothing this life is nothing but to dye Eternally and to loose God and Christ and Heaven that is Death Hell-tormens is not so much as to be shut from the presence of God Alas who would not dye this death to go to Jesus Christ when my body is upon the Gibbet my soul shall be carried by Angels into Heaven My heart is so drawn out after God that I could leave this world to be with him This world is nothing those that have the pleasures of it have nothing I desire to dye because I long to be with Christ there I shall never sin more there is no sin but joy where I shall sing hallelujahs and praise to God We askt what he thought of the company of Gods people for he had now experience of company good and bad He said I had rather be here meaning the Hole in Newgate with bread and water with such company then to have the company of wicked persons with the greatest dainties It was wicked company that drew me away I account it the greatest mercy to have the prayers of Gods people for me had I had my deserts I had been now in Hell where I should have had no prayers no instructions God doth love me for he hath inclined the hearts of his people and Ministers to pray for me and their prayers have prevailed Being ask'd what promises he found to be his support against the guilt of sin now he was to dye he alledged these repeating the words himself Whosoever will let him come and drink of the waters of Life freely and He that confesseth and for saketh his sin shall find mercy and Let the wicked for sake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy on him and to our God for he will Abundantly Pardon This word Abundantly Pardon did often refresh his soul I have sinned abundantly but God will pardon abundantly After these he mentioned another viz This is a faithfull saying and worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came to save sinners of whom I am chief and said I do relie and throw my self upon Jesus Christ I do believe there is merit enough in him and all sufficiency in him to save me it is nothing that I can do will save me He complained that it was the grief of his soul that he could love God no more and love Christ no more for his mercy toward him in giving him so much time and so many helps in sending so many Ministers to instruct him but added when several Ministers had been with me I threw of all and returned to sin and did as vainly as any I could not have repented and believed of my self it is the work of God He often said I fear not death it was nothing with him to die and go to Christ He often said that he had rather die immediately having an interest in Christ than to live a thousand years in this world in the enjoyment of all the pleasures of it without Christ And that he had found more pleasure and delight in the Ways of God since he came into Prison than ever he found in all the ways of sin He confessed his sins saying he first neglected and profaned the Sabbath and said this was the beginning of all his wickedness that on the Sabbath morning he studied what company to go into in what place of sin he might spend the Sabbath then to wicked Society then to Ale-houses then to Brothel-houses then to Murther then to Theft then to Newgate and yet at last he hoped to heaven He lamented saying I have striven to dishonour God and to run into sin oh that I should spend so much time in serving of the Devil and now have but a little moment of time to spend in the service of God and to the glory of God This discourse being ended we desired him now on his last morning before he went into Eternity to pray with us and he willingly consented and his prayer was as followeth being taken from his mouth by Thomas Doe-little that also took in writing his preceding discourse Verbatim The Prayer of Tho. Savage in Newgate with those that sat up with him the night before his Execution O Most merciful and ever

whereby I got acquaintance with bad company and so we went to the Ale-house from the Ale-house to the bawdy house there I was perswaded to rob my Master as also to murther this poor innocent creature for which I am come to this shameful end I was drawn aside I say by ill company pray take heed of that for it will not only bring your bodies to the grave but your soul to hell have a care of neglecting the Sabbaths it is that which hath not only brought my body to the grave but my soul in danger of eternal torments And try the ways of God for the Lord be praised I have found so much of excellency and sweetness in Gods ways that I bless God that ever I came into a Prison And now though I am leaving this world I know I shall go to a better place for I have repented from my soul for all my sins not because I am to dye for them but to see that I should do that whereby I should deserve Hell ten thousand times over and so dishonour God Now the Lord have mercy on my Soul The Prayer of THOMAS SAVAGE at the place of Execution O Most merciful and for ever blessed Lord God I beseech thee look down upon my poor immortal soul which now is taking its flight into another world which now is ready to appear before thy barr Lord I beseech thee prepare me for it and receive my soul into the Arms of thy mercy and though my body die and I come to die this shameful death yet let my soul live with thee for ever Lord pardon all the horrid sins that I have committed the Sabbath breaking Lying Swearing Cursing Vncleanness and all the rest of my sins that ever I have committed Lord give me a new heart and give me faith that I may lay hold and throw my self fully and wholly upon thee enable me O Lord give me saving repentance that I may come to thy Bar and thence be recieved into glory let me not be a prey to Devils to all eternity let not my soul perish though my body die let my soul live Lord let me not be shut out from thy presence and let not all the Prayers and Tears and Counsels and instructions that have been made and shed on my behalf be in vain pity my poor soul Lord my immortal soul Lord it would be just with thee to cast me into everlasting burning I have been a great sinner but Christ is a great Saviour O Lord thou hast pardoned great sinners and thou canst do it Lord and Lord wilt thou not do it Lord let me not be a fire-brand in Hell and a prey to Devils to all eternity let me not then be shut up with Devils and damned souls when my soul takes its flight into another World Lord I have repented for what I have done from the bottom of my heart I have repented and Lord if thou wouldst damn me thou wouldst be just but how infinitely more would it be for the glory of thy free grace to save such a sinner as I am good Lord pour down thy Spirit upon my soul O tell me that I have an interest in Christs blood good Father good Lord before I go hence Lord I am willing I am willing to leave this world I can prize thee above all there is nothing I can prize like to thee wilt thou not recieve my soul recieve it into thy arms and say Come thou blessed of my Father good Father for Jesus Christs sake pity my poor soul for pities sake Lord it is not my Prayers or Tears will save my soul but if ever I am saved it must be through free-grace and the blood of Christ and if there be not enough in that Blood Lord I am willing to be Damned Lord look down upon my poor soul and though I have been such a sinner thou art able to pardon me and wash me apply one drop of thy blood to my soul Lord my immortal soul that is more worth then Ten Thousand Worlds It is true Lord I confess I have taken a great deal of pleasure in sin I have run on in sin and could not invent where to go on thy day and was wont to study into what place and into what company I might go upon the Sabbath day forgive me Lord wash me receive me into thy arms O Lord Oh for one glimp of mercy Lord if thou wilt please to reveal thy self to me I shall tell it to all that behold me It is a mercy Lord that I am not in Hell and that thou showest me the bitterness of sin before I come into Hell it is a mercy Lord that I have had the Prayers converse and instructions of so many of thy Ministers and People Lord recieve my soul one smile Lord one word of comfort for Jesus sake Oh let me not go out of this world let not my soul perish though I killed a poor innocent Creature Lord deal not with me as I dealt with her but pity me pity me for Jesus Christ sake Amen One asked him in the cart Well now Thomas how is it with your soul What sense have you of God's love He answered Sir I thank God through infinite mercy I find God loves me and that now I can chearfully go After his Cap was over his Eyes he used these Expressions Lord Jesus recieve my Spirit Lord one smile Good Lord one word of comfort for Christs sake though death make a separation between my soul and body let nothing separate between thee and my soul to all eternity Good Lord hear me Good Father hear me O Lord Jesus receive my soul VVhilst he did thus pathetically express himself to the people especially to God in prayer there was a great moving upon the affections of those who stood by and many tears were drawn from their eyes by his melting speeches All this was the more remarkable in this young man being under sixteen years of age when he was first apprehended After he was turned off the Cart he strugled for a while heaving up his body which a Young man his friend perceiving to put him quickly out of his pain struck him with all his might on the breast several times together then no motion was perceived in him and hanging some considerable time after that and as to all outward appearance dead insomuch as one said to another friend of his namely Mr. B. Now he is in Eternity and the people beginning to move away the Sheriff commanded him to be cut down and being receiv'd in the arms of some of his friends he was conveyed by them into a house not far distant from the place of Execution where being laid upon a Table unto the astonishment of the beholders he began to stir and breath and rattle in his throat and it was evident his life was whole in him from the Table he was carried to a bed in the same House where he breathed more strongly and opened his

those Tongues for madness it may be it would make thee think that an Oath is no such light matter You say Words are but wind but believe it this wind will rise to such a storm as will not be allay'd without deep repentance till it hath blown thee into hell Did you never read the third of Mal. ver 5. I will come near to Judgements and I will be a swift witness against the false swearers and such as fear not me saith the Lord of Hosts But you 'l say Your tongues are your own who is Lord over us Psal 12. 4. You shall hear one shortly that will answer that question and let you know that he is Lord over that and that your own tongue shall be made to condemn you But what is it that I see How does that swearing Wretch storm and rage there at me for telling him of his sins Come come sinner if you spare not God I promise you I will not spare you and I tell thee what thou hearest is nothing to what thou shalt feel 7. The next youthful lust that I shall mention is Drunkenness Do not many I wish old ones were not here too guilty act as if their business in this World was to eat and drink and take their pleasures The Devil bids them read that Text Eccles 11. 9. Rejoyce O young and they are easily perswaded to take his counsel and so they drink and roar and consider not what a reckoning will be brought at last neither do they stand till they have read the latter part of that verse but know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment Not considering the meaning of that whole Scripture which is but this go young man lye at the Taverns and Ale-houses do drink and be drunk but remember this you shall be damn'd for 't and God will make you take off t' other Cup whether you will or no and that is a Cup spiced with wrath and fury But you see not neither do you yet feel it and therefore you do but laugh at all this you say with those in Matth. 24. 19 My Master delays his coming and therefore you eat and drink with the Drunkards you say Let him talk till his heart akes I will never leave my pleasure for you Why man wilt thou then be desperate Dare you say I 'le drink though there be Death in the Pot though Hell be at the bottom of the Cup or do you think that God will be worse than his word and that though he threaten high yet he means no such matter O sinner deceive not thy self and if thou forget the rest carry home but that one Text Deut. 29. 9 10. If any one hear the word of this course and yet bless himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walk in the imagination of mine own heart and add drunkenness to thirst the Lord will not spare him c. Do you read on and read it again and think of that Scripture the next time that you sit down to your Cups Little do poor Creatures think how dreadful a sin drunkenness is and how many it bringeth with it I 'le tell you of one story of my own knowledge and then I shall leave this A certain Drunkard that I knew very well when he was in drink quarrelled with his Fellow-servant and after a few words knocked him down with his Flail and killed him at one blow Afterwards by Friends he made shift to escape the Halter and comes home again and swears and curses and drinks at as high a rate as ever but at last when he was in the same yard where he did this Murder he dropt down dead in a moment and I was one of the first that saw him 8. Another youthful sin is Vncleanness Is not England too near a kin to France Do not many of our young ones act as if they took pattern by Sodom and had learned of Gomorrah Jeremiah made sad complaint Jer. 5. 7. And are we less guilty Doth not the Scripture speak plain enough against this sin though the Pope count it a venial fault yet those that are guilty of it will find that his Pardon will give them little ease when they are cast into a Bed of flames Sure our hot young men seldom read the book of Proverbs but act as if that simple young man Prov. 7. 10. did run no great hazzard what was it that brought Thomas Savage to Theft and Murder What brought him to that shameful death O how bitterly did he take on that he should ever see the face of that vile woman O! had he but considered whether he was going and that most of her Guests go to Hell had he but thought seriously how bitter that sin would prove I believe he would have lain in flames as soon as with that abominable woman Did none of you hear what he said when he was upon the Cart did none of you see with what earnestness he spoke why this was one great thing that he begged of you young ones as his dying request That you would have a care of this sin 9. The next youthful sin that I shall mention is Theft Drunkenness and Vncleanness are two costly sins especially the latter and poor Creatures are usually so bewitched with that that Credit Purse Body Soul and all must go rather than that beastly sin should not be gratified How many Servants are there that wrong their Masters imbezil their Goods and secretly wast them by the fore-mentioned sin and I believe I need not tell you what a Tragical end Theft hath That Prodigy of her Sex and disgrace of women could not be satisfied with Wine and Good cheer her Purse must be fed as well as her stinking Carcase What do you come hither said she for without money Why where shall I have it said he What hath your Master none replied that Monster Yes said he but I never wronged him neither can I. Nay said she if you be thereabouts come no more here But alas the poor Creature is insnared so that he cannot but go to ask Councel of this Daughter of the Devil how he should manage his matters so as to get that money which his Master had She makes a ready reply and adviseth to Murther the Maid to bury the theft O that unfaithful Servants would think of these things and now and then read that Scripture Tit. 2. 10. and Luke 16. 6. I should here speak something of the bloody sin of Murder but the word of God The Laws of men the Power of Conscience and the signal Judgments of God against such puts me in some hope that I need not much insist upon that I shall add but one sin more 10. Another youthful sin is Incorrigibleness How resolutely do most young ones go on in their sins How hardly brought so much as to debate the business soberly with themselves or others How do they flye in the face of them which reprove