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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.
Truly, the World is almost an Entire Bethlehem, and none but that infinite Wisdom, which keeps the Waves of the Sea, within their Bounds, could Govern the Madness, and manage the Exorbitancies and Confusions of it.
Truly, the World is almost an Entire Bethlem, and none but that infinite Wisdom, which keeps the Waves of the Sea, within their Bounds, could Govern the Madness, and manage the Exorbitancies and Confusions of it.
Let us a little reflect upon the Symptoms of MADNESS, which appear in the Lives of ungodly men.
Let us a little reflect upon the Symptomes of MADNESS, which appear in the Lives of ungodly men.
First. An ungodly man, Believes like a Mad man. His Fancy, like a mad mans▪ is disturbed and depraved, and he hath very Ridiculous Opinions in his mind. His madness lies in that, in Isa. 5. 20. To […] evil good, and rood evil; to put ⟨p. 6⟩darkness for light, and light for darkness. He hath such Frantic Whimsies in him! What thinks he of God? He madly thinks, God is altogether such an one, as my self. What thinks he of Christ? He madly thinks, Christ is a Stumblingblock and Foolishness. What will he think of Religion? He madly thinks, What is the Almighty that I should serve Him, and what profit shall I have, if I pray unto Him? He hath mad Thoughts about Sin, as if, The Stolen Waters of it were sweet. He hath mad Thoughts about the World, as if, Here were his Resting place. And he hath as mad. Thoughts about himself: with a Laodicean madness in him, he counts himself, Rich and Increased in Goods and having Need of Nothing, when he is Wretched and Miserable and poor and blind and naked. Go into a Case de Locos among the proud Spaniards, and you shall see one fancying himself a King, another a Pope, and a third, an Emperor. Such a Swelling madness is in every ungodly man; he do's really count himself, The best man in the World. The Word used for madness, in our Text, is one that carries Pride in the Signification of it.