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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

therefore begin to ask what shall you do that you and yours may be saved and your servants and Children might escape the snares of Satan and flee youthful lusts And you in good earnest Friends And will you promise as in the presence of God that you will do what you can possibly to discharge your duty and to follow those directions that I shall give you In hopes that some are resolved by the help of God to do what in them lies for the keeping all under their charge from everlasting burnings I shall advise you 1. Be good your selves and labour to be patterns of Holiness and to shew your children and servants by your conversation that you your selves believe that there is a God an immortal Soul Heaven Hell and Eternity let your language be savoury and speak you to be one that hath been with Jesus Let your actions be regulated by the Word and endeavour to let them know that you are not in jest when you speak of God and their souls Psal 10. 1. 2. 2. I charge you as in the presence of God as you will answer the neglect of it at the Bar of that great Judg take an exact account of your servants how they spend their time what company they keep what they do upon the Sabbath if you would make any thing of Religion be as careful that the Sabbath be spent in God's service as the Week-daies in yours I could tell you of a servant that was wont many a time and oft to complain of his Master and say If my Master had ever examined me the Text on the Lords-day or called one to any account where I had been or what I had heard I am perswaded I should never have come to so sad an end as I am like to do 3. Instruct them oft in the matters that concern their eternal welfare Sirs tell them I beseech you with all the earnestness that you can for your lives of the danger of sin give them wholsome advice tell them of the necessity of Conversion allow them a little time to pray and read and let them know that you take notice of any thing that is good in them 4. Pray for them cry to the Lord mightily and say O that Ishmael may live in thy sight Lord hast thou not a blessing O my Father for me and mine O pity dear Lord my children and my servants and let all under my roof be of the houshold of faith and of the Family of the Lord Jesus And now once more I beg you to be in good earnest 't will be the truest evidence of the truth of your grace to be faithful in this work 'T will be your joy upon a death-bed 't will be your Crown in another world Vse 5. One word by way of advice to you young people Brethren you saw yesterday what it was to fall into youthful lusts and to day you have heard something of the danger of these sins Methinks by this time you should be in a rage against sin methinks you should all say Well now I will never spend the Sabbath day as I have done I 'le never come near the company of vile women This I hope shall be a warning to me as long as I live Are you in sober sadness of this mind O that the Lord would keep this always upon your hearts O that you may not now get out into the cold world and shake off the sense of these things But do I not see some weeping eyes aking hearts And what dost thou say poor soul O Sir I am the man you mean But is it possible for me to escape Hell I have lived in almost all those sins for many a year what shall I do I shall answer this honest request and the God of love and power send it home 1. Labour to be acquainted with the Principles of Religion Be much in reading of the Scriptures search you will find never a word there to encourage sin but all against it they will make you wise to salvation consult the word and you will escape the wrath to come which shall surely fall upon those that live and die in youthful sins Psal 119. 9. 2. Labour to understand wherein your happiness lies It lies not in Riches Pleasures and Honours but in the favour of God Psal 4. 6. Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and the righteousness thereof set your affections on things that are above and not on things below 3. To be sure keep the Sabbath strictly and attend upon a powerful Ministry Then is the time to buy Provisions to live upon for ever 4. Keep good company Get out of wicked mens society Mark those that walk soberly and that mind their souls and make much of them and beg an interest in their Prayers and take their advice If you once grow weary of good company I shall have little hopes of you and it 's a sign God means good to poor souls when they are very desirous to be in with them that are dear to God A warm Christian-companion O Sirs you cannot value him too highly 1 Cor. 15. 33. 1 Pet. 4. 4. Heb. 6. 12. 5. Take heed of sinning against conscience Let David's Prayer be yours Ps 19. 13. Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sins let them not have dominion over me 6. Take heed of putting off Repentance remember now thy Creator now is the acceptable time O if you value your lives make hast and delay not an hour but go home fall upon your knees beg of God to give you repentance unto life give God no rest day nor night till he have charged your heart and made you see your need of a Christ and made you to give your self to Christ O cry out this night a Christ dear Lord a Christ for my poor soul or I am lost for ever Eccles 12. 1. Psal 119. 62. 7. Be much in consideration commune now and then with your heart think seriously whither you are going and ask your soul what a condition it is in what it hath to bear it up against the fear of death what provisions are made for eternity look into your purse what mony hast thou that will go currant in another world Spend much time in thinking I askt this poor boy how he spent his time in prison he answered in prayer reading and consideration 8. Neglect not Prayer ask and you shall have seek and you shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you be frequent and serious in this duty forget not secret Prayer and look after your Prayers and be not content except you hear of them again 9. Be diligent in your calling be not slothful in your worldly business idleness is the devils shop Rom. 11. 12. 10. Hold out to the end remember what they shall have that conquer resolve for Christ and Heaven upon any terms Well Sirs now my work is done have I been beating the air what will become of these two Sermons yesterday you heard one out of the Cart and from the Gibbet and to day from the Pulpit and what are you resolved to do what shall the tears prayers and intreaties of that dying young man be so soon forgotten if they are can the commands of the living God be so easily contemned is there nothing in all that I have been speaking what are you still of the same mind that you were or are you not I say again I must leave you and a thousand to one whether I shall ever see you or speak to you more once more I charge you as you love your own soul as you fear the wrath of God and the flames of hell Flee youthful lusts FINIS

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