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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.
An Holy Rebuke to the Unclean Spirit.
Uttered on a Day when Two Persons were Executed for Murdering of their Bastard-Children.
JOB. XXXVI. 14 They Die in Youth, and their Life is among the Unclean.
JOB. XXXVI. 14 They Dy in Youth, and their Life is among the Unclean.
TIS a Text, whereupon you may this Day, in this Congregation, behold a very doleful Commentary! You have before your Eyes, a Couple of Malefactors, whose Murderous Uncleanness, ha's now in their Youth brought upon them, a most miserable Death. May your Hearts now give a profitable Attention unto the Use that should be made of such a dismal Spectacle; and of the Text now Read, which has been dreadfully▪ fulfilled in the Spectacle. There are two Persons in this ⟨p. 36⟩