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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28412	The Bloody murtherer, or, The unnatural son his just condemnation at the assizes held at Monmouth, March 8, 1671/2 with the suffering of his sister and servant, for the murther of his mother, Mrs. Grace Jones, for which the said son was prest to death, his sister burnt, and his boy hang'd : with a true accompt of their trials, penitent behaviour, prayers, speeches, and circumstances thereunto relating : with letters of several worthy divines.		1672 (1672)	Wing B3259; ESTC R18868	28,377	74

man die shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my Change come Psal 88.2 3 9 10 12. Let my Prayer com● before thee incline thine ear unto my cry For my Soul is full of troubles and my life draweth nigh unto the Grave Mine Eye mournet● by reason of affliction Lord I have called dail● upon thee I have stretched out mine hands unt● thee Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead shall the Dead arise and praise thee shall thy wonders be known in the dark and thy Righteousness in the Land of forgetfulness Psal 6.1 4 5. O Lord rebuke me not in thine anger neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure Return O Lord deliver my Soul O save me for thy Mercy sake For in death there is no remembrance of thee in the Grave there is no giving thanks unto thee Psal 15.5 Behold I was born in sin and in Iniquity did my Mother conceive me Psal 25.11 Against thee O Lord have I sinned against thee even thee O Lord have I sinned and done wickedly and Lord pardon mine Iniquity for it is exceeding great John 6.37 And he that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out 2 Sam. 12.9 13. David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord and Nathan said to David the Lord also hath put away thy sin Isa 45.18 19. I said not to the seed of Jacob seek ye me in vain Isa 55.7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will abundantly pardon Ezek. 18.23 30 32. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die saith the Lord and not that he should turn from his ways and live Repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions so Iniquity shall not be your ruine for I have no pleasure in him that dyeth wherefore turn your selves and live Mica 7.18 Who is a God like unto thee that pardonest Iniquity and passeth by transgression that retainest not thy anger for ever and delightest in Mercy Mat. 18.11 the Son of man is come to save that which was lost 1 Tim. 1.15 This is a faithfull saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners whereof I am chief Isa 55.7 Let the wicked forsake his ways and the unrighteous his Imaginations and return to the Lord and he will have Mercy upon him and to our God for he is ready to forgive Isa 57.10 I have seen his ways and will hear him I will lead him and restore comfort unto him and to those that lament Psal 103.13 As a Father hath compassion on his Children so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him Psal 144.3 Lord what is man that thou takest Knowledge of him or the Son of man that thou makest account of him Job 16.21 22. O that one might plead for a man with God as a man pleaded for his Neighbour When a few days are come then I shall go the way whence I shall not return In this manner this penitent Malefactor passed the time in a very sorrowfull and Religious frame of Spirit for about half a year in Prison untill the last assizes for Monmouth the seventh of March last past at which time being brought to his Tryal out of consideration as 't is believed to save his Estate for his VVife and Child whereof she was there ready to be delivered he would not plead to the Indictment but stood mute and thereupon had Judgment to be pressed to death a Sentence that carryes with it so much of terrour that we think it not improper to set it down with the Reason thereof as one published by that grand Piller of your Law the learned Lord Cook in the second Book of his Institutes in his Comment on Prim. Westm Cvp. 12. The Judgement or Sentence in case of standing mute called Pain Fort Dure THat the Prisoner shall be remanded to the Prison and laid there in some low and dark house where he shall lie naked on the bare Earth without any Litter Rush or other Cloathing and without any Garment about him but something to cover his Privities and that he shall lye upon his back his head uncovered and his feet and one Arm shall be drawn to one quarter of the house and the other Arm to another quarter and in the same manner shall be done with his Legs and there shall be laid upon his Body Iron and Stone as much as he can bear and more and the next day following he shall have three Morsels of Barley without any Drink and the second day he shall drink thrice of the water that is next to the house of the Prison except running water without any Bread and this shall be his diet untill he be dead Thus we see they are to die three manner of ways viz. Onere Fame Frigore by weight famine and cold and therefore if executed according to the severity of the Law 't is a punishment of all others the most grievous and fearful the reason of this terrible Judgment is there rendred because he refused to stand to the common Law of the Land that is Lawful and due Tryal according to Law and thereupon his punishment for this contumacy is more severe lasting and grievous then it should have been for the crime it self if he had been Convicted of it which he cannot be without Answer THis Action of Mr. Jones standing mute administred occasion to some to dispute its lawfulness and theteupon a very Judicious Casuist drew up the ensuing Case of Conscience CASE OF CONSCIENCE Whether a guilty Malefactor ought to Answer to the lawful Demands of his Judge Affirmatur Because 1. He cannot deny a Truth whereof he is himself Convicted without Lying nor can he deny or any way detract from his Duty of Answering being demanded by a superiour and lawful Power without being likewise guilty of Contumacy and sad Inobedience 2. A Malefactor who is condemned already in foro Conscientiae cannot without remorse deny nor indeed wave or conceal his Confession when he is Juridice demanded without giving offence to the glory of God as it was in the Case of Achan Josh 7.19 3 The publick Good which is intended by the lawful demands of the Judge ought not to be frustrated Give me leave to speak conscienciously by the private evasions of the Criminal 4. The Person guilty not pleading may be supposed to die for his Crime of Contumacy not the Fact which requires satisfaction in this life 5. All humane Policy when repugnant to the manifestation of Justice legal Procedure and the Convictions of a tender though doubtful Conscience is altogether unallowable But to proceed in our Narrative The same way that was appointed for putting the before-recited terrible Sentence in Execution March 11 last he writ to his Wife as followeth Henry Jones his last Letter to his wife Dearest Deare AFter my hearty prayers to the

who was drawn by you to be a partaker of Blood that so his sin and misery as well as your own may incite and draw on to Repentance Pray without ceasing for Mercy Pardon and Peace cry unto God for a broken and contrite heart and say often with a bleeding heart as David Psal 51.14 Deliver me from blood guiltiness O God let prayer be your continual exercise Above all things pray for a saving sight and sense of sin and of your need of Christ And that you may be deeply humbled as well for your other sins as this last was not your breath in unprofitable discourse which may be better spent this way You have a blessed Eternity to provide for and all the time you have to live on Earth is little enough to bewail the sins of your life and to fit your self for an everlasting state Therefore redeem your precious time and account every Minute of great value be very thrifty of it Oh let not drinking gaming or vain talk devour those precious hours which you may and ought to improve for your Eternal Salvation Redeem all you can from sleep company vain discourse c. and spend it in self-examination humuliation prayer confession of sins and supplication for Mercy Remember God upon your Bed and meditate on him in the night watches remember the greatness of your sin and the worth of your Soul and let it be your great business to get the one pardoned and the other saved If Soul-helping friends come to visit you hold them fast and intreat their Prayers and Counsel and let them not leave you till you hove reaped some spiritual benefit from them but if worldly and carnal friends come to see you such as have little favour of God and Grace dismiss them speedily with some good admonition for the time they stay is like to be lost which you should esteem as an unvaluable Treasure Lastly let me intreat you for your Souls sake and by the Prayers that I have made and the Tears I have shed for it that you would not slightly read these lines which I have written nor throw them away after once reading them but that you would ponder on them and endeavour to practice the instructions given you by him that desires your Repentance and Salvation And oh that God would set your sin home to your Conscience and save you from Eternal death and the wrath to come By what I have written you see that I look not upon you as utterly past hope and help your sin though great is not unpardonable if you can truly believe and heartily repent the blood which David and Manassah shed was upon their true Repentance forgiven And the Arm of the Lord is not shortened nor the Fountain of Mercy exhausted The Blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin 1 John 1.7 Though they be as Red as Scarlet or as Crimson Isa 1 18. You are not yet so far from Heaven but you may by true Faith and Repentance get it Nor are you so near Hell but you may yet by the means of God escape it but remember the Work you have to do is great your time short and your strength small therefore whatsoever you find in your heart to do for your Salvation do it with all your might Eccles 9.10 you have lost too much time already loose no more but immediately about this great Work to make up the dreadful breach that is between God and your Soul and to fit it for his glorious presence which that you may diligently and faithfully perform to your everlasting Salvation is and shall be earnestly requested whilst you are on this side the Grave by him who is Your Souls Friend and Remembrancer Tho. Jackman Directed thus For Mr. Henry Jones Prisoner in Monmouth BY the labours of the aforesaid Ministers and the repeated perusal of this Pathetical Soul-searching Heart-melting Letter it pleased the great God in infinite Mercy to give this desperate Malefactor a sense of his most dangerous state the grievousness of his sins and the necessity of a Christ to preserve him from the Jaws of everlasting destruction henceforward he was very little concerned for his body or the pains of death it was to suffer but extreamly sollicitous about the affairs of his Soul He was often bewailing his sinful heart and the Errors of his life how much time he had wretchedly wasted in the Devils service and how little he had now to spend for Gods Glory and his Souls advantage he was very diligent in reading the Holy Bible and good Books and very frequent and fervent in Prayer some forms of which we conceive for the assistance of his Memory were found after his death in writing in the Prison which take as follows O Almighty God Lord of Heaven and Earth Judge of Angels and Men give leave to a vile wretched and dejected Soul to come into thy presence who deserves nothing but Plagues and Torment Fire and Brimstone permit a trembling Malefactor to look towards thy Mercy Seat and for Jesus sake attend unto my cry and hear the voice of my Tears O Eternal goodness if thou forsakest me the huge load of my sins will sink me into desperation and fiery Prison my estate is most sad and pittyable and there is none to deliver me let thy tender Mercies speedily prevent me for I am brought very low I am astonished at the sight of my Iniquities for they are great and numberless O Lord support me with thy blessed Arms or I shall fall into a Sea of misery and never rise again fear and terrours do surround me and the evil spirits watch for my ruine may I not a grievous sinner beg one drop of comfort who am ready to perish may I not pray to thee in the time of my distress when thy fierce Waves are coming over my Soul my pensive fainting and troubled Soul I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up while I suffer thy terrors I am dictracted wilt thou be angry with me for ever wilt thou draw out thine anger into all Generations most Gracious God give me leave to lie at thy sacred feet and sigh and mourn and bewail my self a little before I descend into my Grave where there is no repenting give me leave to confess my Iniquities and beg this favour that I may not go down into the Regions of darkness and dwell with Devils Ezek. 18.31 thou willest not the death of sinners thou takest no pleasure in their Torments O then Well-spring of Life and Salvation who hast promised pardon to the penitent let the sighing of the Prisoner come before thee whose heart is melted in the midst of his Bowels I confess O Lord I have been proud and prophane and despised thy truths I have been greedy of the world and distrusted thy providence I have made hast to be rich and ruined my self This O God was the bitter root from whence all my sorrows do grow my worldly-mindedness This made