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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.
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⟩Assembly, who shall never another Sermon; their Unclean life, is within these few Hours to be Extinguished by the Justice of God; ere the Clock that just new Struck, and the Glass that now▪ runs, have done so, about five Times more, they are to be gone before God the Judge of all; and because they have been Fools, therefore their Souls before this Night, shall be Required of them. I Suppose, The Circumstances of These will oblige Them, to entertain the▪ Truths of God, this Afternoon, with a most singular Agony of Soul; but, I demand this from All the rest of You, that the Circumstances of These, do quicken you all to mind, What you shall be told, concerning the Lamentable Desolations, which an Unclean Life do's bring upon the Children of men. Briefly, As Father Latimer once presented unto a great man, a New Testament, with this Inscription embossed▪ on the Cover of it, Whoremongers and Adulterers God shall Judge: Thus, I am to present, especially Young People, with a Bible this ••ay, and show them this Line upon it, They Die in Youth, whose Life is among