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A45351	A sermon preach'd at the Castle of York to the condemned prisoners on Monday the 30th of March 1691 being the day before their execution : with an appendix which gives some account of them all, but more particularly of Mr. Edmund Robinson Clerk who was condemned and executed for high treason in counterfeiting the King's coyn / by George Halley.	Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708.	1691 (1691)	Wing H455; ESTC R26651	21,825	37

the innocent blood you have shed Crys to Heaven for Vengeance yet the blood of the ever Blessed Jesus crys as loud for your pardon and forgiveness if you be but deeply touch'd and affected with a sense of your abominable wickedness Your Repentance 'T is True is late you have been exceeding sinful you have put off your Duty towards God and your Neighbour till the very last Minute of your Life and the Holy Gospel requires not only Sorrow and Remorse for Sin but an Holy Life to demonstrate the Sincerity of Repentance But Alas You have little or no time to amend your Life in your glass is well nigh run you have not many hours for the Consideration of your latter End Well! but there is mercy with God his Nature and Property is ever to have mercy and to forgive his mercy is as infinite as himself and therefore none must pretend to Limit or Confine it though you have hitherto liv'd in Prophaneness in the contempt of God and Religion yet if you make a True and Ample Confession of all your Wickednesses if you humbly beg pardon and with the Publican in the Gospel smite upon your breast and say God be Merciful to me a Sinner if you promise and resolve Amendment and if God foresee that such your resolution would be inviolable that you would Pay your Vows if more time were given you I hope He will accept your Repentance I Leave you therefore to the goodness and pity to the Gracious compassion of a merciful God I pray you to consider your Latter End that after Death there will be a Judgment I beg of you to Employ the small Moment you have to live to your Eternal interest and Advantage to work out your Salvation with fear and Trembling to be doubly diligent and industrious to redeem the time seeing you are but come into the Vineyard at the Eleventh hour May you receive Equal Wages with those that came in at the first with those that have born the burden and heat of the day may you be sav'd with the Thief upon the Cross tho' his Case as well as the Labourers is vastly different from yours yet you have a general refuge in the Merits of Christ and in the Mercys of God And here may all you who have escap'd the Sentence of Death who have been but slightly punish'd for your offences follow the salutary advice of our Blessed Saviour which He gave to the Adulterous Woman and the impotent Man in the Gospel Go and Sin no more Jo. 5.14 Jo. 8.11 Lest a worse thing come unto you Lastly May all you who hear me this day be perswaded by the Exemplary punishment of these Persons to the Excellent and rewardable service of God to keep your vessels in Sanctification and Honor to the practice of Temperance and Chastity to do always that which is just and honest Lawful and Right to a constant performance of your duty both towards God and Men to an early and sincere Repentance to bring up your Children in the fear of the Lord to season them betimes with the salt of piety and Holy Religion I Pray for you all in the Pathetick and Affectionate words of my Text. Oh that you may be Wise Oh that you may understand this O that you would consider your Latter End Now to God the Father God the Son and to God the Holy Ghost be Ascrib'd as is most due all Honor Glory Power Might Majesty Dominion and Faithful service from Henceforth and for Evermore Amen A Short ACCOUNT of Mr. Edmund Robinson who was Condemn'd for High-Treason in Counterfeiting the KING's Coin on Monday the 23. of March 1690 1. and Executed on Tuesday the 31st of March 1691. THe place of this Unhappy Man's birth was Colne Parish in the County of Lancaster His Father was a Considerable Husband-Man who sent him to School as soon as he was Capable of Institution where he made a great proficiency in something else as well as his Book for as I am credibly inform'd by an honest Gentleman who was his School-Fellow those base practices which have since brought him to the Gallows began then to appear and shew themselves in him he had there contracted an intimate friendship and acquaintance with a Young Man whose name was Greggson with whom amongst many other Roguish Pranks he frequently impos'd upon and cheated the ignorant and unskilful with Pewter Shillings and of whom it is probable he learn'd his Art for this Greggson's Father had the Scandalous Character Reputation of a Coyner Greggson himself who had likewise taken Holy Orders upon him was about 10. or 12. Years ago for Coyning Executed at Lancaster thus as they had both equally abus'd and Scandaliz'd their sacred function as they were Brethren together in iniquity so in the shameful manner of their deaths they were not divided From this School I suppose he went to the Vniversity where according to his own information he was admitted though he made but a very short stay there not residing in the College above six weeks when he return'd into the Countrey but whether or no he ever visited the Vniversity again to take a degree he wou'd not give me any satisfaction as to that particular However he got into orders being ordain'd both Deacon and Priest as he told me by the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Hacket late Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry which qualify'd him for a Benefice a place call'd Holmforth under the Vicaridge of Kirk-Burton in York-Shire which Curacy in value about 25 or 30 l. per Annum he serv'd about Eleaven years and then pretended to leave it through some Bodily indisposition he preach'd likewise for the space of a year at a place call'd Haworth in the Parish of Bradford this was all the promotion he had in the Church and from which if he had been honest and industrious he might have had a comfortable subsistence having the Addition of 12 l. per Annum of a Temporal Estate which he got by the marriage of one Anthony Armitage's daughter a considerable Yeoman of Thick Hollins in the parish of Almon-bury His Life when a Curate was by no means suitable to his profession for he wou'd Forge Licenses and Clandestinely Marry and was guilty of many other immoralities which to mention wou'd swell this Narrative too much By these Vicious practices he made himself Obnoxious to the Ecclesiastical Laws being Suspended and Excommunicated and at the last imprison'd upon a writ de Excommunicato Capiendo Such was his Deportment such was his behaviour when concern'd in the Church But the Devil had put into the heart of this Judas Iscariot another-guess and as he Tempted him to Believe a more Profitable and advantagious way of living in the world which was by imparing and Counterfeiting the King's Coyn this was the Employ he Closely follow'd when at Bank End in the aforesaid Parish of Kirk-Burton as he himself inform'd me telling me all the Tricks of his