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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.
Fifthly. The ungodly man has, The Devil in him. There is an Unaccountable an Unexpressible Interest of Satan oftentimes in the Distemp••• madness. It was a common sentiment among the Jews of old, That madness was oftentimes produced by an Invasion and Possession of Evil Spirits; Especially, if the madness were Sine Febri. Hence they said in one of their Slanderous Blasphemies against our Lord, as in Joh. 10. 20. He hath a Devil, and is mad. It is often some Devil, which takes Advantage of the Poisonous Fires which madness is inflamed with, to carry on the hideous Hurly Burly's that are in the minds of the Distempered. Hence also 'twas said concerning one that was mad, in Match. 17. 15,18. He is Lunatic; that is, one Distracted at certain Times of the Moon. And it follows; Jesus rebuked the Devil. Be sure, An ungodly Sinner ha's this point of madness in him, That he is under a Remarkable Energy of the ⟨p. 13⟩Devil. It was said unto a Cheater, in Act. 5. 3. Why hath Satan filled thine Heart? And so it may be said of every other Sinner, Satan hath a Strong-hold in the Heart of such a Sinner. He hath given himself up to the Devil, resolving and engaging, To walk after the Prince of the power of the Air. He ha's a thousand times over said unto Satan, as Ahab to the Syrian, I am thine and all that I have. And hereupon, He is moved by the Devil, and led by the Devil in his whole Conversation. This is his Madness while he Lives!
Fifthly. The ungodly man has, The Devil in him. There is an Unaccountablean Unexpressible Interest of Satan oftentimes in the Distemp••• madness. It was a common sentiment among the Jews of old, That madness was oftentimes produced by an Invasion and Possession of Evil Spirits; Especially, if the madness were Sine Febri. Hence they said in one of their Slanderous Blasphemies against our Lord, as in Joh. 10. 20. He hath a Devil, and is mad. It is often some Devil, which takes Advantage of the Poisonous Fires which madness is inflamed with, to carry on the hideous Hurly Burly's that are in the minds of the Distempered. Hence also t'was said concerning one that was mad, in Match. 17. 15,18. He is Lunatick; that is, one Distracted at certain Times of the Moon. And it follows; Jesus rebuked the Devil. Be sure, An ungodly Sinner ha's this point of madness in him, That he is under a Remarkable Energy of the