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A26716	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 and at his execution, Robert Franklin ... [et al.]. To which is annexed a sermon preached at his funeral.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.; Franklin, Robert, 1630-1684.	1671 (1671)	Wing A997; ESTC R26456	48,011	81

take notice of from these words is this Doct. That it is the great duty of young people to be exceeding careful to avoid the sins which usually attend their age Or if you please That it highly concerns Young men to flee youthful lusts It 's no cowardise to flee from sin In the prosecution of this Doctrine I shall shew 1. What are the common sins of young people 2. What it is to flee from youthful Lusts 3. Why they should flee from youthful Lusts 4. I shall apply it I shall name some of those sins which young ones are subject to First Young people are very apt to be disobedient to their Parents or Masters O how great a rarity is it to see young people as ready to obey as their Parents are to command Most children are children of Belial that is without a yoak Let Parents command advise nay intreat all 's to little purpose How ready are they to break the bond which God and Nature lay upon them to dutifulness Though the Command of God be plain enough though his Threatnings are terrible and though this sin seldom goes unpunished in this life yet children take little or no notice of them one would think that one Scripture should scare them Prov. 30. 17. The eye that mocketh at his Father and desp●seth to obey his Mother the Ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it What is the English of that Why they shall come to an untimely end Have not the sad Complaints of many at Tyburn sufficiently demonstrated this to be true Have not many cried out with a halter about their neck Children if you value your lives and souls take heed of disobeying your Parents That was the sin which brought me to this untimely and shameful end 2. Another youthful sin is Lying Poor children quickly learn this Lesson of their Father the Devil It is not without good reason that the Psalmist Psal 58. 3. gives such a character of wicked children which went astray from the womb telling Lies and the older they grow the more skilled they be in this devilish Art it 's like they are not ignorant that it is a sin that cuts the bonds of all Society it may be they are told how dear Ananias and Saphira paid for one Lie Act. 5. 3. nay though the Word of Truth tell them more than once That Liars must dwell with their Father the Devil in that black Prison Hell though they hear of a Lake of Fire and Brimgone that burns for ever Rev. 21. 8. and that such as they are must be cast into it yet for all this they 'll venture still 3. Sabbath-breaking is another youthful sin O how little do most of the young people of this City 〈◊〉 the sanctifying of the Sabbath Doth not the multitude of Apprentices and Children that wander up and down Monefields on the Lord's-day speak this to be too true they dare not make bold with their Masters time on the Week-daies but as for God's Day that they spend as if God had set apart one day in the Week for young people to sleep drink and play in They dare as well eat a piece of their fingers almost as to do that of another day which they do then and the truth of it is they look upon the displeasure of a dying man as terrible but the Anger of a Holy GOD they make light of O! little do they think what precious time that is their souls are naked and they may then have cloathing they are starving and they may then have food the Market is then open Provisions for Eternity may then be had But O prodigious madness the hearts of most young ones speak in this language As for Christi Heaven and Soul let them go we have better things to think on more weighty matters to mind And is it true indeed O young man What is the company of vain Wretches like thy self the wanton embraces of a whorish Woman the turning off thy cups and damnation more needful than the hearing of Sermons than Praying and Reading and Salvation Sure you shall not alwaies be of that mind O! little do you imagine how dear you shall pay for all the pleasures you have on the Sabbath out of God's House This this was THE SIN which lay like a load upon the soul of this poor Young man The profaning of the Sabbath that was the bane of him This carried him out of God's Way into the Devils Quarters O how bitterly did he bemoan himself for this sin as the cause of all the rest O! said he when I should have been begging the life of my soul I was plotting the death of my soul and body too Did none of you stand by the Cart when he wept so bitterly and cried to the Lord to forgive this great and dreadful sin Did none of you hear how earnestly he begged of you to have a care of that sin as you loved your Lives and Souls O wretch said he that I was I studied how I might spend the Lords Day in the Devils work I thought I could never dishonour God enough and that time that I should have served God most in I did most for Satan in them then I plaid my mad pranks I went into the Church indeed sometimes but I may speak it with shame and deep sorrow now I never heard one whole Sermon all the time I was with my Master and indeed I laughed at those that spent the Sabbath in hearing of Sermons and Praying and looked upon them as the veriest fools in the world I was glad when the Sabbath came that I might have time to run to my vile Comrades I rejoyced that I could then go to satisfie my cursed Lusts with whorish women O! tell young m●n from me that the breaking of the Sabbath is a costly and dangerous sin Sirs the substance of this Sermon I received from his mouth And will you not believe a dying man Do you think he did but jest 'T was on the Sabbath day he went to a whore 't was on the Sabbath he robbed his Master and 't was on the Sabbath that he killed the Maid But because this sin is Epidemical I leave a short story with you and desire you to think of it and the if you like what follows break the Sabbath still The story is this A dear Friend of mine was preaching about the sanctifying of the Sabbath and had occasion to make mention of that man that by the special command of God was stoned to death for gathering sticks upon the Sabbath-day Whereupon one of the Congregation stood up and laughed and made all the hast he could out of the Church and went to gathering of sticks though he had no need of them but when the people came from the Sermon they found this man stark dead with the bundle of sticks in his arms lying in the Church-porch And yet for all this there stands a young man in that

corner that makes nothing of idling away the Sabbath and there sits another that minds not the Lord's Day except it be to get into wicked company and take his pleasure in it And how canst thou endure to hear of this without trembling But I fear thy heart is so hard that thou art ready to rage against this reproof Well if the case be so I have done with thee but believe it God hath not yet do●e with thee and the Devil hath not done with thee and though thy Conscience say nothing now yet I tell thee that hath not done with thee neither Let none think I am tedious upon this Head if young men will but reform this sin I promise I will never tell them of it more Christians I hope that there be some such here would it not be a blessed sight to see the Fields the Tavern the Whore-houses empty and the Churches full would it not be a blessed Reformation O when shall it once be Which is the sweeter Musick to hear the air eccho with the confused hollowing and roaring of lewd young men playing upon the Lord's Day or to hear the sound of singing of Psalms repeating of Sermons Praying Reading of Scriptures Which is like to end best Isa 56. 2. Amos 8. Isa 58. 14 15. Ezek. 20. 12. 4. Another youthful sin is Mispending of time Young ones think they have time enough before them and therefore make nothing of trifling it away How far are most from following the Apostles counsel in redeeming of the time What do you think many hours discourse of filthy Bawdy stories is that redeeming of time is sitting up whole nights to play at Cards and Dice redeeming of time Is robbing your selves of sleep to lie in the bosom of Daliah redeeming time If this be redeeming of time then some of our young ones and many of our Gallants redeem time bravely 'T was a notable one that of Seneca if saith he one ask me for my Purse I am not ve●y willing to give it him if he beg all my Estate I think it a mad request but if he ask me to pass away time with him two or three daies of time I pass not much upon it but it 's easily granted and thus one of the most precious things in the World is vilified O little do people think how glad they shall be one day of one of those hours that they spent in foolery Oh call Time again will be the language of more than one upon a death-bed Could you talk with some of the mad young ones that are in Hell that lived five or six years ago in as much pleasure as you do now and spent their time like you but it may be little dreamed of being in Hell so soon but might reckon of forty or fifty years to live could you I say talk with them and ask them what they think of time now They would quickly say Oh! a World for one praying hour Oh! where are the people to be found that seriously consider that there is not a moment of time but we must be accountable for 'T was excellently spoke of that poor young man when he was in Newgate amongst the ●●mmon Prisoners one Sabbath-day they asked 〈◊〉 to play at Cards with them Oh saith he you and I have something else to do with our time than to play at Cards Is it now a time for us to be sporting away the Sabbath when we have but one poor Sand left to work for Eternity 5. Another youthful sin is Keeping bad Company Are there not many of the Devils Emissaries that make it their business to decoy poor young ones O what a happiness do they promise them a goodly happiness indeed to carry them to the Devil 'T was not without cause that David in Psal 1. 1. did pronounce them blessed that had least to do in wicked company Whatever deluded Creatures think of their mad jovial company one that is well in his wits looks upon their society as an emblem of Hell Psal 120. The young man upon whose account we are here met this day told me That two or three wicked fellows first got him out to spend a penny but little did he think whither they were leading of him and after they had been at one place they carried him to another till at last they brought him to that house out of which few go without their Deaths-wound This was the general complaint of them that went this last Assizes to Tyburn And yet how are silly souls pleased with such company whose greatest kindness is to make them go merrily to Hell And are they still such sweet natur'd Creatures that you can't love too much who do what they can possibly to deprive you of your truest happiness and make you miserable for ever O how will your boon Companions greet one another in Hell nay it may be upon Earth too I remember I was once with a drunkard that lay a dying and after I had prayed with him in comes one of his old Companions in sin and asked him how he did at which he was ready to gnash his teeth and made this dreadful reflection concerning him to me O that that was the wicked wretch that drew me away if it had not been for him I had not been in so lamentable a case upon a death-bed Prov. 1. 10 11. 6. The sixth youthful sin is Cursing and Swearing How ready are young ones to learn the language of their Father it was not long since that I heard a little Boy swear at every sentence he spoke O what will such be when they come to be old if they begin so soon scarce creep on their feet and yet running post to Hell O how many are there of this Daring Generation that bend their tongues like bows and shoot those Arrows against Heaven which will fall down dipt in the poison of Divine Fury It would make ones heart ake to hear how some belch out their hellish Oaths to hear how cruelly they take in the Wounds of Christ and crucifie him afresh not considering that at the same time they are butchering of their own souls and if one tell them of their Swearing how ready are they to swear That they did not swear and turn and laugh as if it were a creditable thing to be like the Devil and an honour to make hast to Hell O how many are there of his Black Crew that brave it out with their Damn-me and Sink-me and Oaths as if they would dare the Almighty to his very face and as if there were little of truth in God's Threatnings and his Anger a very light matter O sinner What if God should take thee at thy word when the next Damn-me is in thy mouth and stop thy breath with an Oath in thy mouth What if God should go to cursing too Do you know what a dreadful Word that is Go thou cursed O! What if God should swear too That thou shalt never enter into his

be inflicted upon him that he had but a few Weeks more to live and then he would be Tryed and Condemned and Executed but they told him that the punishment of 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 soon 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 in 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 intollerable the immediate impressions of Gods wrath would be upon his Soul what horrour and anguish he would there be filled withal and how he would be bound up in Chains of darkness until the judgement 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 entered into the heart of man to conceive 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 would 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 Gods Justice besides and pacifying his anger that was kindled against him No he knew not any and 〈◊〉 did he hope to be saved He answered yes They ●●quired whether ever he had experience of a gracious change wrought in him Herein he could give no account and yet hoped to be saved Yes They told him his hopes were unsound 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 and escaping if he looked only to himself he might cry out What 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 been brought up in a Countrey 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 gone the Lord did begin to work and he did acknowledg 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 that 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 so 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 daies after he was Prisoner in Newgate VVHen I came in 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 that thou 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 16 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 sin and of his miserable and lost estate and asked him whether he believed 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 〈◊〉 of God and be damned or saved according 〈◊〉 then he should be found to be converted o●●●…converted The Scriptures were these 1 Cor. 6. 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God be not deceived neither Fornicaters nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Esseminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind ver 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 Uncleanness Lasciviousness ver 20. Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies ver 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 their 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 Murder 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 God's Justice but God's Truth

also stood betwixt him and eternal happiness and told him that I spake it with reverence that the Holy God must be a lyar or else he dying in the guilt of these sins must be certainly and eternally damned I asked him what do you think how will you escape the damnation of Hell and the great wrath that is to come you have heard what God saith what do you say what course will you take and what means will you use that you may not according to Gods threatning be cast among Devils into eternal devouring flames to this at present he made no reply but did often shake his head and lifted up his eyes towards Heaven Next I endeavoured to bring him to a sight and sense of the corruption of his nature and of the sinfulness of his heart and told him all those sins were in his heart before they were actually committed and turned him to the saying of Christ Matt. 15. 19. for out of the heart proceed evil thoughts Murders Adulteries Fornications Thefts False-witnesses Blasphemies and told him that in his repentance for those sins he must not only lay to heart and be grieved for the outward acts but lament and bewail the inward principle of corruption whereby he was so strongly inclined to such horrid abominations according to the example of David after his sins of Adultery and Murder in his confession did follow them up to the rise and original from whence they did spring Psal 51. 5. Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my Mother conceive me By this time I perceived some workings of heart within him and that he was in some measure sensible of his lost estate and by his deportment and carriage to be cast down not knowing what to do I was unwilling to leave him without some grounds of hope that it may be he might be saved that there was a possibility that he might obtain pardoning mercy and be delivered from that great damnation that was due to him for his great transgressions I began to open to him the readiness of Christ the fulness and sufficiency of Christ to save the greatest sinners and that God I hoped in mercy to his Soul had sent me one of his Embassadors to offer him a pardon and eternal life if he were but willing to accept of Christ upon the terms of the Gospel for his Lord and Saviour and did encourage and assure him upon Repentance and Faith in Christ there was mercy yet for him though a Murderer from these Scriptures Isa 1. 18. Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as Snow and though they be red as Crimson they shall be as Wooll As I opened to him the great mercy of God in Christ towards Sinners died in Grain that were sinners of a Scarlet colour that had committed hainous transgressions he brake forth into tears and wept plentifully at the tidings of mercy and possibility that such a one as he might be saved Besides I turned him to some Scripture promises that God would certainly forgive his sins and save his soul if he could repent and get Faith in Christ such as Prov. 28. 13. He that confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall find mercy and 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 have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon This Scripture he diligently heeded and turned it down in his Bible and these two Scriptures the night before he suffered amongst others he alledged as the grounds of his hope of mercy I also gave him some Scripture instances of great Sinners that had obtained mercy turned him to the example of Manasseh 2 Chron. 33. to that of Mary Magdalen Luke 7. 37 38. to that of the Jews Acts 2. 37 38. that were guilty of the blood of Christ that had murdered the Son of God a greater Murther than which could not be committed and yet upon Repentance and Faith many of them were pardoned and saved To that of Paul 1 Tim. 1. 13 14 15 16. shewed him how God had set up Paul as a pattern of Free-Grace towards great sinners for the encouragement of such that though guilty of great sins afterwards should believe To all these he hearkened very carefully and took notice of the places of Scripture for his Meditation after I left him And last of all I endeavoured to set before him Jesus Christ as the only remedy and Saviour for his Soul and shewed him the insufficiency of all his Duties Prayers and Tears to get off the guilt of the least sin that if he could shed a thousand tears of blood for any one vain thought it would be no better than puddle water to justify or to save him Much discourse I had with him at this time besides what is here inserted and several other times when I went to visit him in Newgate which I willingly omit because this book should not swell to too great a bulk After all I went to Prayer with him in which Duty he was much dissolved into tears he seemed to me and his faithful Friend that was most with him above all others to be very earnest in Prayer and with weeping eyes to beg for Pardon and converting grace and Christ to be his Saviour which was much insisted on in the Prayer that was made for him After which advising him to consider of what I said for that time I took my leave of him The next time after this Discourse that Mr. Baker came to him he enquired how it was with him he said what T. D. had said did very much startle him that he knew not what to reply and cryed out very much of the hainousness of his sins that he should commit that horrid sin of Murder and knew not what to do for that left a deep impression upon his heart That God must be a Lyar or else he in that condition of impenitency must be damned yet he laid hold upon that Promise that was unfolded to him That if a sinner turned from his wicked ways God would abundantly pardon and afterwards read on the verse that followed Isa 55. 8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways saith the Lord. Upon which considering said Men cry out for death and vengeance no mercy to be had from Men but Gods thoughts to a repenting sinner were life for he delighteth not in the death of a sinner About four or five days after this he was puzled about his performing of Duties and resting only upon Christ for Salvation for he was tempted if he perform Duties to rest upon them or to let them alone and leave them off if he must rest only upon Christ At which time H. B. coming to him enquired how it was with him now and how he hoped to be saved He answered By Repentance and