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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
An Holy Rebuke to the Unclean Spirit. › Assertion 1: Assertion. I.
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As a Wicked Life in general may be called, an Unclean one, so an Unclean, Life, in particular is a very Wicked one. It is true, That all Wickedness, is called Uncleanness, in those Oracles, of Truth, which never miscalled any thing. Thus, the Wicked Nature which we were all born into the World withal, ha's that said of it, in Job 14.4. It is an Unclean thing. Thus, the Wicked Person who do's Renounce God, ha's that said of him, in Eccl. 9.2. He is Unclean. All our Sinfulness, is called, A Filthiness of Flesh & Spirit. When a Child of God ha's asked, for a Deliverance from Sin, he so Expresses it, Wash me thoroughly from my Iniquity, and Cleanse me from my Sin. And a man that Lives in Sin against the God that made him, is denominated in Job 15.16. An Abominable and Filthy man. Why? Because the most Loathsome. Dirty, Nasty Object in the World, is not so Distasteful unto us, as all Wickedness is unto our God, who is, Not a God that ⟨p. 41⟩hath pleasure in Wickedness.
As a Wicked Life in general may be called, an Unclean one, so an Unclean, Life, in particular is a very Wicked one. It is true, That all Wickedness, is called Uncleanness, in those Oracles, of Truth, which never miscalled any thing. Thus, the Wicked Nature which we were all born into the World withal, ha's that said of it, in Job 14.4. It is an Unclean thing. Thus, the Wicked Person who do's Renounce God, ha's that said of him, in Eccl. 9.2. He is Unclean. All our Sinfulness, is call'd, A Filthiness of Flesh & Spirit. When a Child of God ha's asked, for a Deliverance from Sin, he so Expresses it, Wash me thoroughly from my Iniquity, and Cleanse me from my Sin. And a man that Lives in Sin against the God that made him, is denominated in Job 15.16. An Abominable and Filthy man. Why? Because the most Loathsome. Dirty, Nasty Object in the World, is not so Distastful unto us, as all Wickedness is unto our God, who is, Not a God that