Execution sermons - Early works to 1800
Works from the collections
7 works
- E-books
- Online
A sermon, preached at Danbury, November 8th, A.D. 1798 , being the day of execution of Anthony, a free Negro, pursuant to sentence of death passed upon him by the Hon. Superior Court, for the crime of a rape. By Timothy Langdon, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Danbury. [One line from Ecclesiastes].
Langdon, Timothy, 1758-1801.Date: 1798- E-books
- Online
The importance of a religious education illustrated and enforced . A sermon: delivered at Worcester, October 31, 1793, occasioned by the execution of Samuel Frost, on that day, for the murder of Captain Elisha Allen, of Princeton, on the 16th day of July, 1793. By Aaron Bancroft, A.M. Pastor of the Second Church in Worcester.
Bancroft, Aaron, 1755-1839.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- E-books
- Online
The evidence of Christianity not weakened by the frailty of its ministers. A sermon preached in the cathedral church at Bristol, on Sunday, June 29, 1777. By John Camplin, ..
Camplin, John, b. 1753 or 4.Date: 1777- E-books
- Online
Christ made sin for his people, and they made the righteousness of God in Him explained in a sermon occasioned by the remarkable conversion and repentance of Robert Tilling, ... who was executed at Tyburn, April 28, 1760. ... By John Stevens. ... To which is added, a part of a letter ..
Stevens, John, Rev.Date: 1760- E-books
- Online
Paradise promised by a dying Saviour to the penitent thief on the cross . A sermon delivered at Cambridge, on Thursday the eighteenth of November, immediately preceeding the execution of Alexander White, Richard Barrick and John Sullivan. With an appendix, exhibiting some account of their conversation and behaviour in prison, &c. By Timothy Hilliard, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge.
Hilliard, Timothy, 1747-1790.Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]