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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
A Blessed Medicine for Sinful Madness. › Application 1: First USE.
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.
There is both Comfort and Counsel hence to be laid before those that have been Cured of their Madness by a true Conversion unto God. Some of us there are that have been brought unto a Right sense of things, by the Renewing of the Holy Spirit, and unto a just Contemplation and Reformation of our Manners. We may indeed with much Humility look back, and say with the ⟨p. 21⟩Apostle, in Act. 26. 11. I was once Exceeding mad. We were Mad and worse than so, when we […] without God, and without Christ, and without Hope, and went along without Fear or Wit, in the Lewd Courses of our Unregeneracy. But our God ha's reduced us unto a blessed measure of Sobriety, by Changing of our Hearts within us. Now,
There is both Comfort and Counsil hence to be laid before those that have beed Cured of their Madness by a true Conversion unto God. Some of us there are that have been brought unto a Right sense of things, by the Renewing of the Holy Spirit, and unto a just Contemplation and Reformation of our Manners. We may indeed with much Humility look back, and say with the ⟨p. 21⟩Apostle, in Act. 26. 11. I was once Exceeding mad. We were Mad and worse than so, when we 〈…〉 without God, and without Christ, and without Hope, and went along without Fear or Wit, in the Lew'd Courses of our Unregeneracy. But our God ha's reduced us unto a blessed measure of Sobriety, by Changing of our Hearts within us. Now,
First. There is Rich matter of Comfort, in our Cure. Our Deliverance foretells many Comfortable Things unto us; but This Particularly, That it will not be a Sad, but a Sweet kind of Death, which we must quickly Encounter with. We shall shortly Go to the Dead; and this is one of the Greatest, the Blackest Fears that we are Afflicted with. But, be now assured, Ye Recovered Souls, That when you go to the Dead, you shall not Go to the Mad. Indeed you shall then be Gathered unto your People, as tis said, Abraham was. But who are they? Not the Mad people, whose boisterous Excesses were unto you always Abominable here. No, a Departing Saint sometimes pleaded that with God, Lord, Let me not go to be with the Wicked forever, for