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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.
Secondly, For the End of this Madness. Tis here concluded in that clause, After that, they go to the Dead. A clause capable of a Various Interpretation. Some carry it, as a further Account of the Promiscuous Events happening both to Good and Bad men. They both Go to the Dead. But we may rather conceive the Issue of the Madness that is in wicked men, here pointed at. It Expires in Death; of which Death we must understand, That it is Agreeable to the Life which went before; and therefore a Wretched, Woeful, Shameful Death, a Death in Madness, and therefore a Death in Misery, must be implied in this Assertion. Wherefore the Doctrine, which demands your Attention is, […] DOCT. […]
Secondly, For the End of this Madness. Tis here concluded in that clause, After that, they go to the Dead. A clause capable of a Various Interpretation. Some carry it, as a further Account of the Promiscuous Events happening both to Good and Bad men. They both Go to the Dead. But we may rather conceive the Issue of the Madness that is in wicked men, here pointed at. It Expires in Death; of which Death we must understand, That it is Agreeable to the Life which went before; and therefore a Wretched, Woful, Shameful Death, a Death in Madness, and therefore a Death in Misery, must be imply'd in this Assertion. Wherefore the Doctrine, which demands your Attention is, 〈…〉 DOCT. 〈…〉
A Sad Death, after a […] is, the Condition which […] Ungodliness is attended with.
A Sad Death, after a 〈…〉 is, the Condition which 〈…〉 Ungodliness is attended with.
We have Two very Sorrowful Subjects to discourse upon; and therefore my whole Sermon must be like Ezekiels Roll, full of Lamentation and Mourning and Wo.