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Warnings from the dead. Or Solemn admonitions unto all people
Warnings from the dead. Or Solemn admonitions unto all people; but especially unto young persons to beware of such evils as would bring them to the dead. / By Cotton Mather. ; In two discourses, occasioned by a sentence of death, executed on some unhappy malefactors. ; Together with the last confession, made by a young woman, who dyed on June 8. 1693. One of these malefactors.
printed by Bartholomew Green for Samuel Phillips, 1693
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.
But •ert▪ Among whom then, shall be your Life? The Rule is, let your Life be among them, that have the Fear of God within them. Don't think, That a Young Saint will make an Old Devil; but know, that if thy life be not among Young Saints, thou art like to go to the Devil before thou art Old Say, with the Psalmist in Psal. 119. 63. I am a Companion of all them, that fear thee, O Lord, and that keep Thy Precepts. There are young Persons, that lead a Godly, a Sober, a Righteous Life; Let your Life be among persons of such a Life! Let your Life be among the Young Josiahs, that Seek the Lord while they are yet young; among the Young Timothies, that from a Child have known the Holy Scriptures; among the young Obadiahs, that can say, I fear the Lord from my Youth. ⟨p. 68⟩There are young persons, both Men and Maids, who sincerely and secretly give themselves up to the Lord Jehovah, Father, Son, and Spirit, in the Covenant of His •rac•; and who then openly Lay hold on that Covenant among the People of God; May your Life be among such young ones! There are young persons, both Men and Maids, in this Town, who do not spend the Sabbath-Evening in such polluting Diversions, as too many do; but they then in Little Knots come together, to seek the Face of God, and Sing the Praise of God, and Repeat the Sermons of the foregoing Day; May your Life be among such young Ones! I am confident, you all wish, Let me die the Death of those Righteous young persons, and let my Last End be like Theirs! But I say to you, Let your Life be among them, or else your Death will be your Eternal Separation from them.
And […] of all; Be at last prevailed withal, to take the Warnings of such as have D'd in Youth, because their Life has been among the Unclean. You have seen some, in their youth carried from the Living, by the Whirlwind of the Wrath, of God! Oh! may the Groans, the Cries, the Dolorous and the Dying Ejulations of those Young Transgressors, become Effectual Warnings into all of you that are yet alive. Let it be