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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 2: Direction. 2.
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.
Direction. 2.
Avoid the Company and Fellowship of them that Madness is yet Prevailing in. Achish of old would not ••dure one that pretended Madness, to be near him; said he, Have I any need of madmen? So impatient be you, of any Familiarity with Vicious men; if any such Entice you to join with them in any of their Impieties, then say, What shall I get by being among mad-men? Depart from me, ye workers of Iniquity. It was the Wish of the Apostle Paul, in 2 Thes. 3. 2. To […] Delivered from on cas•nable and Wicked men. O 'Tis ⟨p. 27⟩an Hell upon Earth to be among them! If you are Entangled in any Knot of them, I Pray, quickly Deliver your selves. Their Madness has This Peculiar in it, that it is Contagions. As the Biting of a Mad Dog, disposes a man to Lap, and Pant, and Perish, just like the Dog that has bitten him: thus it is with many a man, when the Venom and spittle of a World Companion ha's infused it sel• into him. O that every Soul were awfully mindful of that Admonition, in Prov. 13.20. He that walks with the Wife shall be Wife; but a Companion of Fools shall be Destroyed.
Avoid the Company and Fellowship of them that Madness is yet Prevailing in. Achish of old would not ••dure one that pretended Madness, to be near him; said he, Have I any need of madmen? So impatient be you, of any Familiarity with Vicious men; if any such Entice you to join with them in any of their Impieties, then say, What shall I get by being among mad-men? Depart from me, ye workers of Iniquity. It was the Wish of the Apostle Paul, in