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The wicked mans portion. Or A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston in…
The wicked mans portion. Or A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston in New-England the 18th day of the 1 month 1674. when two men were executed, who had murdered their master.) Wherein is showed that excess in wickedness doth bring untimely death. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a Church of Christ. ; [Six lines of quotations]The wicked mans portion. Or A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston in New-England the 18th day of the 1 moneth 1674. when two men were executed, who had murthered their master.) Wherein is shewed that excesse in wickedness doth bring untimely death. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a Church of Christ. ; [Six lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I was not my self in this Land at that time, but I have had an account of it from those that knew it. A young man drowned himself, but before he did that, he left a writing directed to his Father, 1wherein he had such words as these, O Father, I have kept my soul as long as ever I could; My ruin was, the pride and stubbornness of my tender years, which should have been fetched out with sharp correction; and evil counsel and company •ath been my undoing. I have a young brother that follows my steps, he is going the wide way to destruction, I beseech you take pains with him & correct him as well as counsel him, that he may not be undone soul and body as well as I. Words to this purpose, did that perishing young man (though the son of a Godly Father) write when he was going into eternity. You disobedient children think of it, and the Lord strike it home to your Hearts.
I was not my self in this Land at that time, but I have had an account of it from those that knew it. A young man drowned himself, but before he did that, he left a writing directed to his Father, 1wherein he had such words as these, O Father, I have kept my soul as long as ever I could; My ruine was, the pride and stubbo•ness of my tender years, which should have been fetcht out with sharp correction; and evill counsel and company •ath been my undoing. I have a young brother that follows my steps, he is going the wide way to destruction, I beseech you take pains with him & correct him as well as counsel him, that he may not be undone soul and body as well as I. Words to this purpose, did that perishing young man (though the son of a Godly Father) write when he was going into eternity. You disobedient children think of it, and the Lord strike it home to your Hearts.
- 1Abraham Warner a• Har•f••d in Connecticut.Abraham Warner a• Harfd in Concticut.