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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.
A Blessed Medicine for Sinful Madness.
A Discourse, Occasioned by a Sentence of DEATH, passed upon several Malefactors, who were then in the Congregation.
Ecclesiastes IX, Madness is in their Hearts, while they Live, and after that they go to the Dead.
IT is a very doleful Thing, that upon the Reading of this Text, I may do as our Saviour, upon a better Occasion did; even shut the Book, and Begin to say, This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your Eyes. The Beginning of it ha's been woefully fulfilled by the Mad Lives of some unhappy and condemned Malefactors, who make a Sight in this house at this Time, very moving unto all Spectators. The Endeavour of one Sermon more is to be bestowed upon them before ⟨p. 2⟩they Die, that their Madness many not accompany them unto their Execution, to be cured only by Death, which is indeed an Effectual, but a very miserable Cure for all Diseases.
IT is a very doleful Thing, that upon the Reading of this Text, I may do as our Saviour, upon a better Occasion did; even shut the Book, and Begin to say, This day is this Scripture fulfiled in your Eyes. The Beginning of it ha's been wofully fulfilled by the Mad Lives of some unhappy and condemned Malefactors, who make a Sight in this house at this Time, very moving unto all Spectators. The Endeavour of one Sermon more is to be bestow'd upon them before