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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. › Direction 1: Direction. I.
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Direction. I.
Accustom your selves to […] upon your own Condition. Let me say to you, as in Isai. 46. 8. Show […] ⟨p. 26⟩selves men, O ye Transgressor You that play the Fool, every Day, be persuaded once to Play the Men. Act like men by Arguing upon your own Affairs. Argue, and Ponder with your selves, Whether you Act Wise••orno? Think, whether you would count that to be Prudence in your Temporal, which you do every day in your Spiritual concerns. Ask your selves, What Good, & what End you propound in what you are doing of and see well, whether there be, Nothing unworthy of a man, in your Deportments.
Accustome your selves to 〈…〉 upon your own Condition. Let me say to you, as in Isai. 46. 8. Show 〈…〉 ⟨p. 26⟩selves men, O ye Transgressor You that play the Fool, every Day, be perswaded once to Play the Men. Act like men by Arguing upon your own Affayrs. Argue, and Ponder with your selves, Whether you Act Wise••orno? Think, whether you would count that to be Prudence in your Temporal, which you do every day in your Spiritual concerns. Ask your selves, What Good, & what End you propound in what you are doing of and see well, whether there be, Nothing unworthy of a man, in your Deportments.