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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.
First. His Natural Death is the Execution of a Divine and a Dreadful Curse upon him. It was Gods Curse for our Sin, in Gen. 3. 17. Thou shall surely Dy. The Sting is taken out of that Curse, to the true Believer, and ⟨p. 15⟩the Snake ha's more of Cordial than of […] in it. But the Death of an […] comes upon him, as part of […] and Satisfaction which […] Justice of God calleth […] Justice of the Great God, […] not let such a Transgressor Live; but will Pay him home the Wages; that his Faults make due unto him. The Blessed God will not let his Creatures any longer groan under the Burden of serving such a Monster, and therefore. He gives to His Officer Death, such an order as this, Go Marshal, Take some away, carry him to his own place!
First. His Natural Death is the Execution of a Divine and a Dreadful Curse upon him. It was Gods Curse for our Sin, in Gen. 3. 17. Thou shall surely Dy. The Sting is taken out of that Curse, to the true Believer, and ⟨p. 15⟩the Snake ha's more of Cordial than of 〈…〉 in it. But the Death of an 〈…〉 comes upon him, as part of 〈…〉 and Satisfaction which 〈…〉 Justice of God calleth 〈…〉 Justice of the Great God, 〈…〉 not let such a Transgressor Live; but will Pay him home the Wages; that his Faults make due unto him. The Blessed God will not let his Creatures any longer groan under the Burden of serving such a Monster, and therefore. He gives to His Officer Death, such an order as this, Go Marshal, Take some away, carry him to his own place!