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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.
and among other Arguments, by that Eminent person handled, One in our Context is, The sad plight of Ungodly men, in the Black day, when the Vengeance of God shall overtake them for their Ungodliness: Especially when there is any thing beyond the Common measures of Impiety, in that ungodliness. There will come a Time, when the Wrath of God shall no longer forbear the Recompenses, which belong ⟨p. 38⟩to ungodly men; and in our Text, we have an Intimation, both When, and Why, such a Time shall come upon them. These ungodly Creatures are here called, ••••rites in this Book of Job; as they […] justly also called Fools, in the Books […] David and of Solomon: because every Sinner would be counted better than Indeed he is. Now,
and among other Arguments, by that Eminent person handled, One in our Context is, The sad plight of Ungodly men, in the Black day, when the Vengeance of God shall overtake them for their Ungodliness: Especially when there is any thing beyond the Common measures of Impiety, in that ungodliness. There will come a Time, when the Wrath of God shall no longer forbear the Recompences, which belong ⟨p. 38⟩to ungodly men; and in our Text, we have an Intimation, both When, and Why, such a Time shall come upon them. These ungodly Creatures are here called, ••••rites in this Book of Job; as they 〈…〉 justly also called Fools, in the Books 〈…〉 David and of Solomon: because every Sinner would be counted better than Indeed he is. Now,
First, If you would know, WHEN, the Displeasure of God shall break upon the Heads of ungodly Sinners, You are here informed, They Die in Youth. It seems, That an Early Death, a Death in the Prime, and Spring of their Days, is that whereunto they make themselves Obnoxious. In the Original tis, Their Soul Dyeth; so that it is a Spiritual and an Eternal, as well as a Temporal Death, which is to come upon them In Youth:—Some Read it, In a Tempest, or With a Shaking: and thus, it notes their coming to a Death, which may be called Violent; some Storm or Stroke of the Divine Anger, shall Violently hurry them out of the World. And there are who so Translate it, They Die Rearing; as if, their Death were to be […] with such Rearing Distresses as Wretches upon the Gallows