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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.
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 ⟨p. 69⟩so, Lest, that come upon you, which is foretold, in Prov. 29. 1. He that being often Reproved, hardeneth his Neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without Remedy. The young persons that have sometimes Died in and for their Uncleanness among us; have you not heard their solemn Admonitions when their Trouble, their Darkness, and the, Dimness of their Anguish, has been upon them. When those forlorn Outcasts have stood just upon the Edges of an awful Eternity, how vehemently have they called upon all Survivors, to Beware of coming to the place to Torment after them! Oh! how they have Roared unto our young ones, Whatever you do, Sirs, do not Lead such Unclean, Profane, Prayerless Lives as we have done: How have they Roared, Whatever you do, make sure of a precious Christ, for an Immortal Soul, before it be too Late! Well, Take these Affectionate Warnings And among the rest, Give Ear unto the Dying Speeches of the young Woman, whose Execution you are to see this Afternoon. She has put into my Hand, and signed with her own, these Dying Expressions of her Distressed Soul; which it will not be unprofitable, for me to publish this Day among you.
And 〈…〉 of all; Be at last prevailed withal, to take the Warnings of such as have D'd in Y•uth, 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 ⟨p. 69⟩so, Lest, that come upon you, which is foretold, in Prov. 29. 1. He that being often Reproved, hardeneth his Neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without Remedy. The young persons that have sometimes Died in and for their Uncleanness among us; have you not heard their solemn Admonitions when their Trouble, their Darkness, and the, Dimness of their Anguish, has been upon them. When those forlorn Outcasts have stood just upon the Edges of an awful Eternity, how vehemently have they call'd upon all Survivers, to Beware of coming to the place to Torment after them! Oh! how they have Roar'd unto our young ones, Whatever you do, Sirs, do not Lead such Unclean, Profane, Prayerless Lives as we have done: How have they Roar'd, Whatever you do, make sure of a precious Christ, for an Immortal Soul, before it be too Late! Well, Take these Affectionate Warnings And among the rest, Give Ear unto the Dying Speeches of the young Woman, whose Execution you are to see this Afternoon. She has put into my Hand, and sign'd with her own, these Dying Expressions of her Distressed Soul; which it will not be unprofitable, for me to publish this Day among you.