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A50164	Speedy repentance urged a sermon preached at Boston, December 29, 1689 : in the hearing and at the request of one Hugh Stone, [a mis]erable man [under a just sen]tence of [death] for a [tragical and] hor[rible murder : together with some account concerning the character, carriage, and execution of that unhappy malefactor : to which are added certain memorable providences relating to some other murders, & some great instances of repentance which have been seen amonst us / by Cotton Mather.]	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1690 (1690)	Wing M1156; ESTC W19439	36,769	111

not be catched thou thinkest to hide thy self in Secret when as God in Heaven can see see th●e though thou hast hid it from Man And when thou goest to Thievery thy wickedness is discovered and thou ar● found Guilty O Young Woman that is Married and Young Man look on 〈◊〉 here be sure in that Solemn Engagement you are obliged one to another Ma●●iage ●s an Ordinance of God have a care of ●reaking that Bond of Marriage-Vnion if the Husband provoke his Wife and cause a Difference he sins against God and so does she in such Carriage for sh● is bound to be an Obedient Wife O you Parents that give your Children in Marriage remember what I have to say you must take notice when you give them in Marriage you give them freely to the Lord and free them from that Service Command you ought to have yet you ought to have a tender regard to them O thou that takest no care to lead thy life civilly and honestly and then Committest that Abominable Sin of Murder here is this Murderer look upon him and see how many are come with their eyes to behold this man that abhors himself before God that is the Sin that I abhor my self for and defire you take Example by me there are here a great many young people and O Lord that they may be thy Servants Have a care do not sin I will tell you that I wish I never had had the opportunity to do such a Murder if you say when a person has provoked you I will kill him 'T is a thous●nd to one but the next time you will do it Now I Commit my self into the Hands of Almighty God His Prayer O Lord our Good God thou art a Merciful God and a Gracious and Loving Father Alas that thou shouldest Nourish up Children that have 〈◊〉 against Thee O Lord I must confess thou gavest me opportunity to read thy Written Word Thou art also my Crea●or and Preserver but Lord I have not done according to the Offers of thy Grace thou hast not hid from me the opportunities of the Good Things and Liberties of thy House and Ordinances but I have waxed wanton under the Enjoyment of them I have given thee just cause to provoke thee to Anger and thou hast left me to Shame not only on my self but on my Relations O Lord God I do confess that I have sinned against thee and done all these Iniquities against thee and before thine eyes Lord I have sinned especially against thee pardon my Sins of Youth Lord pardon this bloody Sin I stand here Guilty of O Lord hide not thy face from me I humbly beg it of thee for there is no man 〈◊〉 Redeem his Brothers Soul but only the Blood of Jesus Christ must do it Let it be sufficient to satisfie for my poor Soul I h●●e not done any thing that thou shouldest be pleased to shew me thy Love or that I should have any thing from thee but only Everlasting Misery I am unworthy to come to thee yet Lord for thy Mercies S●●e have pity on me Now I am coming 〈◊〉 Iudgment Lord let the Arms of thy Mercy Receive my Soul and let my sin● be Remitted Good Lord let not my sin● which Condemn me here in this world rise up to Condemn me in the World to come though they have Condemned me in this world shew mercy Lord when I come be fore thy Iudgment-Seat If my Soul be not humbled Lord humble it let my Petition be acceptable in Heaven thy Holy Mountain I am unworthy to come into thy Presence yet O let me come into thy Kingdom and deliver my Soul from Blood Guil●iness in the Blood of Jesus Christ O let my wounded Soul mourn for my sin that hath brought me here Sin brings Ruine to the poor Soul wo is unto me for mine Iniquity If I had gone to Prayer in the morning when I committed this sin Lord God thou wouldest have kept back my hands from shed●ing innocent Blood O Gracious God Remember thou me in Mercy let me be an Object of thy pity and not of thy wrath the Lord hear me and pardon my Sins Take care of my poor Children I have scattered them like stragling sheep flying before the Wolf pity the poor Children that go like so many Lambs that have l●st their Keeter that they may not come to such a Death as I do 〈◊〉 Lord for the sak● of Jesus Christ and the Righteousness o● thy Son accept my Soul and receive me into the Arms of thy mercy that I may enjoy Everlasting Rest. Pardon all my sins and let the Prayers of all those that have put up their Petitions for me be accepted for the sake of Jesus Christ. Now I am coming now I am coming thou mayst say I called to thee and thou wouldst not come I must say my sin brought me here O the World and the corrupt nature of man that has proved my ruine O Lord Good Lord let me enjoy Rest for my Soul The desire of my Soul is to be with thee in thy Kingdom let me have a share in that Kingdom Now is the time Lord Jesus the Grave is opening its mouth I am now living though dead in Stn let my prayers be heard in heaven thy holy place thy hands hath made me I know thou can'st Save me hide not thy face from me and affect the hearts of thy people with this sad Ob●●ct that they may labour to serve thee betimes and may not give themselves up to profaneness and Wickedness especially that Sin of Drunkenness which is an in let of all Ab●minations When thou hast thy head full of Drink the Remembrance of God is out of thy heart and thou art unprepared to commit thy self and Family unto God thou art unfit to come into Gods Presence I have cause to 〈◊〉 out an● be ashamed of it that I am guilty of it because I gave may to that Sin m●re than any other and then God did leave me to practise wickedness and to Murder that dear Woman whom I should have taken a great deal of Contentment in which if I had done I had not been here to suffer this Death Thou art Holy Just and Good and therefore O Lord have mercy on me for the sake of thy Son pity me now Lord I am coming O that I could do thee better Service Many of you that behold me I know wish you never had seen me here Lord Receive my Soul into a better place if it be thy blessed will 't is a day of great Trouble with me my Soul is greatly Troubled give me one Glimpse of Com●ort in thy Kingdom by by let me have one dram of thy Grace Accept of me now at this time 't is the last time Good Lord d●ny me not give me as the W●man of Sam●ri● a Taste of that Living Wa●er that my Soul may Thirst no more I beg it for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen After this

which we may be dispos'd unto We are to ly before the Lord as Loathsome Undone Wretched Creatures and Shout Grace Grace concerning all the Methods of our pardon Here to speak as Ierome of old All Hands are Dissolved because nothing done by our Hands will be found to answer the Righteousness of God It was a thing prescribed in Ancient Directiores for the Visitation of the Sick that the Sick Man should be taught to say O my God I now place the Death of the Lord Iesus Christ between me and my Sins Behold words fitted for every Sin-sick Soul What else can we say seeing we are told in Acts 26. 18. Men receive the Forgiveness of Sins and are Sanctify'd by Faith in Christ Iesus And hence even one of the greatest Giants among the Romish Philistines having argued a great while for the Interest of our own Merits in the pardon of our Sins at last he comes to that memorable issue of all Tutissimum est By Reason of the uncertainty of our own Righteousness and the Danger of vain Glory 't is the safest course to Repose our whole Trust in the Mercy and Grace of God alone Indeed I pray why then did you Bellarmine Dispute with so long and strong a Sophistry against the safest course in the World I beseech you Let none of us take any other course for the pardon of our Sins Counsel 5 Seek a Pardon and seek it PENITENTLY And there are especially Two Expressions of Repentance which we are to be exercised in They are conjoyned in Prov. 28. 13. He that Confesseth and Forsaketh his Sins shall find Mercy VVherefore 1. Confess all your Sins if you would have the pardon of them It was said upon a devout purpose of Confession in Psal. 32. 5. I said I will Confess my Transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the Iniquity of my Sin How much more will an exact performance of it have such a Consequence In some Cases our Sins must be confessed unto Men. Indeed our secret Sins must not be divulged until God Himself have in a manner brought them out but then we are by our own ingenuous Confessions to perfect the Discovery So David so Ionah thought tho' they could say unto God Against thee thee only have I sinned scarce any but God being privy to their Miscarriages And thus Achan when others were made Sufferers by his being a Sinner and God was pointing at him as the Troubler of all the Neighbourhood his Duty then was that My Son Confess and Give Glory to God But be sure Sins committed before Men must be Confessed unto Men. VVhen Ioseph● Brethren had been Brethren in Iniquity they heard one another with a bitter Confession saying We are verily Guilty When the Publicans and Souldiers such people that had sinned publickly of old came to a better sense they Confessed their sins no doubt a● publickly as they could We must give all men to see that we do not Approve of Sin by our taking shame to our selves for what sin they have seen us overtaken with and like the Convicted Leper crying out Vnclean Vnclean But in all Cases our sins must be confessed unto God who knows them all and whom they have all affronted and ●●used It is said in 1 John 1. 9. If we Confess our Sins He is Faithful and Iust to forgive us our Sins We are to confess our sins before the God of Heaven both very particularly and very sincerely We may do well to take a Catalogue of Duties Required and Sins Forbidden in all the Commandments of God and Examining by that Glass what Spots we have had in our Hearts and Lives we should Bewayl them all before God And Bewayl them without any Excuses or Defences to Extenuate them in our Lamentations An Vpright man lies in the Dust Let us lay our selves there and so Enlarge upon our own Vileness as becomes A Spirit without Guile Such a Confession as this must be made if we would have any marks of a pardoned Soul upon us 2. Forsake all your Sins if you would make Genuine your Confession of them When you have once Vomited up your Sins by Confessing of them O do not return to them as A Dog to his Vomit Come to say as in Job 34. 31. I will not offend any more and study to Do what you say As The Burnt Child will dread the Fire So let us Dread all the Sins which our Souls have been scorched with and let us not espouse any Way of wickedness If any of us will go on still in our Sins let us not forget what will come of it no less truly than that in Psal. 68 21. God shall wound the Head of such an one as goeth on still in his Trespasses But O what horrible wounds are those which the Omnipotent Hand of the Great God shall be the Inflicter of Do not venture to go on in any course of Sin but be able to say I hate every false way and especially be able to say I kept my self from mine Iniquitie Albeit any Sin may have been as dear as a Right-eye or a Right-hand unto you nevertheless Away with it Whatever bad course you have heretofore been us'd unto abhor it now with a very hearty and zealous Detestation and say What have I any more to do with Idols 'T is a New Life that we are now to be studious of and we may not promise a pardon to our selves while we continue in Sin Tho' God at first Iustify the Vngodly yet he will not let a Iustified man remain ungodly any more no he teaches him to Deny all ungodliness and Live Godlily Soberly and Righteously in this present Evil World II. But there is a very particular USE of these things to be Regarded by one among us who is never to see the light of another Sabbath more T is Hugh Stone that I am now more immediately concerned with and therefore let him as a man just come unto the very side of the black River of Death give earnest heed unto what shall now be said before we part Unhappy Man you must now Dy before your time for your being wicked ●vermuch and because you have been a Man of Blood you must not Live out all your Dayes I am a little to invert the Words of my Text in my Speech ●nto you and say Why don't you seek 〈◊〉 have your Transgression pardoned and your Iniquity taken away For you shall sleep in the Dust before this Week be out and if we seek you next Friday Morning you shall not be among us T is a great Favour of God unto you that you have liberty to hear a Sermon or two before the Execution which you are Sentenced unto your Monstrous Hands hurried your poor Wife out of the World with a greater and more cruel Expedition You may lament it with an inexpressible Bitterness that you have no better improved those hundreds of Sermons which you have enjoyed heretofore But I now beseech

you let not one more be lost You are Hearing for your last O let it be as for your Life Look out for a Pardon before it be too late and let not the Divels cheat you of a Never-dying Soul Every Drop of that innocent Blood in which you have imbrued your merciless Hands has a Tongue in it and it makes a fearful hideous Clamour in the Ears of the Great God saying Vengeance O Lord Vengeance on the cruel Murderer Methinks you should be concerned for a Saving Interest in that Blood that speaks better things Nothing but the Blood of the Lord Jesus will drown the voice of that horrible Cry This Blood speaks for A Pardon to them whom it belongs unto 〈◊〉 O do you now speak for a Title to that Blood I say again Before it be too late What shall I say that may stimulate the Christward motions of you● Fettered Soul I am to tell you First That your Slit is very Great The Sin for which you now stand Condemned is a sin of a deep bloody Dye Murder is the most Barbarous and Divelish among all the Crimes that are Iniquities to be punished by the Iudge Will a Wolf kill a Wolf no and the very Bears agree among themselves But shall a Man than be worse than a Wolf unto a Man If He that loves another fulfils the Law 't is easy to tell what he does that Murders another The most Wretched Pagans have observed of the Murderer That Vengeance will not suffer him to Live But your Murder is one hardly to be parallel'd in an Age 'T is said No Man if he have but the Heart of a MAN in him ever hated his own Flesh. What then are you that have Murdered yours Find a Name for yourself if you think it possible You have Murdered Her whom you should have Loved above all the world Her whom you should have Cherished with all the Kindness and Goodness of an Holy Conversation Her whom you should have been willing even your self to have Dy'd for the preservation of And with Her 't is said you have Murdered an Infant which never saw the Light This is your Sin And Doubtless they were not few or small Sins for which God left you unto This. You had long before been guilty of those Impious both Omissions and Commissions which gave the Divel at last a very entire Possession of you O Consider of them all a●d especially Trouble your own Soul for your Unbelief in Rejecting the Saviour of it You have sat long under the Gospel but you have Refused yea you have Crucify'd the blessed Redeemer who therein besought you to be Reconciled unto God How should the Remembrance of this be to you as the Wormwood and the Gall and cause your Soul to be Humbled in you I am to tell you Next That your Case is very sad Look round about and say Is there any Sorrow like your Sorrow Your House you have Troubled it and it is turned upside down by what you have done and what Anguish what Horrour have you fill'd the Hearts of your scattered Children with Your Name you have Blemish'd it it must Rot without a Grave-stone among Civil People you must hereafter be known by this Description The Man that Murdered his Wife Your Body it has undergone the pains of Chains and Gaols there is a little more pain reserved for it before it feed the Worms But above all your SOUL your Soul is brought into Dangers too affrighting to be patiently thought upon What is it that the Word of God pronounces upon the Murderer No Murderer has Eternal Life It says The Murderer shall not Inherit the Kingdom of God It says The Murderer shall have his portion in the Lake that burns with fire and Brimstone Surely Thy very Heart must be moved out of its place to hear of such an End as this which indeed will never have an End What think you of Changing your Fetters for the Chains of Darkness in the Dismal Vault below What think you of changing your Prison your Dungeon for the Outer Darkness in which there is gnashing of Teeth for eevermore Truly it becomes you to lay your self in the Dust and cry out Wo is unto me that I have Sinned I may tell you Thirdly That your TIME is very short You may not Entertain the least Thought of having your Life now prolonged in the world the very World will be defiled if you continue in it Were there a City of Refuge among us which you were fled into yet we ought to fetch you thence and see you made a Sacrifice The Great God has Required this co●cerning you Let him hasten to the Pit Let no man stay him and you must before this Day S●'nnight be gone thither Whence you cannot Return As it was said unto a better man than you Set thy House in order for thou shalt Dy and not Live Thus I would say to you that cannot possibly set your Desolate House in order any more Set thy Soul in order for thou shalt Dy before this Week expire Undone man where shalt thou be within a few Hours Tho' this Day Se'nnight you should Roar Lord Lord One Sabbath more or Lord Lord One Sermon more and one Season more it will be in vain for ever and ever And yet let me tell you Lastly That there is a May be of Mercy for you Tho' with Cain you have been a Murderer yet let not the out-cry of Cain be with you My sin is greater than can be forgiven You may be made a Manasseh for Blessedness as you have been such an one for Wickedness A Pardon is to be had if you slight it not and how should that mel● your very Heart within you In an English Plantation that is not far from New-England a while ago there were two or three Men● Condemned to D● as I have heard for Piracy After their Condemnation they broke Prison and fled into the Woods from whence after some weeks they returned of their own Accord and Surrendred themselves unto the Authority saying We got away only that we might have time to make our peace with God and get the pardon of our Sins assur'd unto us which thro' Grace we have done and now we tender our Lives to satisfie the Justice of the Law The Iudges were so pleased with this Ingenuity that first they bestow'd a Reprieve on them and then procur'd a Pardon for them For your part you are utterly for ever uncapable of a Pardon from the Hands of Men but were you in earnest about it you might yet get a Pardon from the Hands of God without flying any whither but unto the Horns of the Altar the Lord Jesus for it One which Died of Bleeding had that Expression about the Blood of the Lord Jesus One Blood kills me and another saves me Truly as the Blood of the person whom you have Murdered calls for your Death so the Blood of our dearest Jesus will

the Aggravations of it hardly an Age will show the like You have professed your sel● Sorry for it H. S. I am heartily so Min. But your Sorrows must be after a godly Sort. Not meerly because of the miseries which it has brought on your outward Man but chiefly for the Wrongs and Wounds therein given to your own Soul and not only for the Miseries you have brought on your self but chiefly for the Injuries which you have done to the Blessed God H. S. I hope my Sorrow lies there Min. But do you Mourn without Hope H. S. I thank God I do not Min. Where do you see a Door of Hope H. S. In the Lord Iesus Christ who has died to save Sinners Min. Truly There is no other Name by which we may be saved The Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ is that alone in which you may safely anon appear before the Judgment Seat of God And that Righteousness is by the marvellous and infinite Grace of God offered unto you But do you find that as you have no Rightetousness so you have no Strength that you cannot of your self move or stir towards the Lord Jesus Christ though you justly perish if you do not Run unto Him that it is the Grace of God alone which must enable you to accept of Salvation from the Great Saviour H. S. Sir my Case in short is This I have laid my self at the Feet of the Lord Iesus Christ for my Salvation and had it not been for His meer Grace and Help I had never been able to do That But there I have laid and left my self I have nothing to plead why he should accept of me If He will do it I am happy but if He will not I am undone for ever it had been good for me that I never had been Born Min. And you must justifie Him if He should Reject you You surprize me with at once giving me so much of the Discourse which all this while I have been labouring for I can add but this The good Lord make you sincere in what you say Your Crime lay in Blood your Help also That lies in Blood I am to offer you the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ as that in which you may now have the Pardon of all your sins Now you may try the sincerity of your Faith in the Blood of the Lord Jesus for a Pardon by This. Have you an Hope in that Blood for all the other saving effects of it shall I expl●in what I mean H. S. Do Sir Min. The Blood of the Lord Jesu● 〈◊〉 not only Sin Pardoning Blood but 〈◊〉 Soul-Purifying and Heart-softening ●●ood It embitters all Sin unto the 〈◊〉 that it is applied unto and 〈◊〉 every lust in such a Soul Are are you desirous of this H. S. With all my Heart Min. The Lord make you so The Lord Seal your Pardon in that Blood which is worth ten thousand Worlds But what will you do for that God who has given you these hopes of a Pardon you must with a Holy ingenuity now do something for the Honour of that God whom you have sinned so much against H. S. What ' shall I do Min. Why Confess and Bewail the Sins that have undone you and publickly Advise and Exhort and Charge all that you can to take heed of such evi● wages H. S. I will endeavour to do it ●s God shall help me Min. I pray tell me plainly what special Sin do you think it was t●a● laid the first Foundation of your D●struction where did you begin to lea●● God and Ruine your self H. S. It was Contention in my F●mily I had been used unto something of Religion and I was once careful about the Worship of God not only with my Family but in secret also But upon Contention between me and my wife I left off the wayes of God and you see what I am come to Min. I would pray you to Vomit up all Sin with a very hearty detestation You are going if I may so speak to disgorge your Soul if you do not first cast up your Sin if your Soul and your Sin come away together you cannot but know something of the dismal condition which it must pass into O what cause have you to fa●● out with Sin forever it has been your only Enemy Here is the only Revenge which you may allow in your self You must now bear any Mu●●ce against any one man in the World 〈◊〉 forgive even those that have done 〈◊〉 the greatest Injuries Only upon 〈◊〉 be as revengeful as you can 〈◊〉 ●ould have you like Samps●n so to 〈◊〉 taking of a just Revenge H S. I hope I shall Min. Well we are now but a very few paces from the place where you must breath your last You are just going to take a most awful Step which has this most Remarkable in it That it cannot be twice taken If you go wrong now it cannot be Recalled throughout the Dayes of a long Eternity I can but commit you into the Arms of a Merciful Redeemer that he may keep you from a Miscarriage which cannot be recal'd redress'd throughout eternal Ages The Lord show unto you the Path of Life Attend unto these as the last words that I may speak before the Prayer with which I am immediately to take a long Farewel of you You are now just going to be Confirmed for ever If the Great God presently find you under the power of Prejudice against any of His Truths and Wayes or of Enmity against what has His blessed Name upon it you shall be fixed and settled and confirmed in it until the very Heavens be no more But they are very Terrible Plagues and Pains which you may be sure will accompany this everlasting Disposition of your Soul On the other side If God now find your Soul under the power of Inclinations to Love Him Fear Him Serve Him and to esteem the Lord Jesus above a thousand Worlds you shall then be Confirmed in the perfection of such a Temper and of all the Ioy that must Accompany it Which of these is the Condition that I now leave you in H. S. Sir I hope the latter of them Min. The Good God make it so and grant that I may find you at the Right hand of the Lord Jesus in the Day of his Appearing May this Ladder prove as a Iacobs Ladder for you and may you find the Angels of the Lord Jesus ready here to convey your departing Soul into the Presence of the Lord. After this Discourse ascending the Ladder he made the following Speech The Last Speech of Hugh Stone YOung Men and Maids observe the Rule of Obedience to your Parents and Servants to your Masters according to the Will of God do the Will of your Masters If you take up wicked ways you set open a Gate to your Sins to lead in bigger afterwards thou can'st not do any thing but God will see thee altho● thou thinkest thou shalt