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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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But then there is One peculiar sort of Wickedness, which the Term of Uncleanness is more strictly put upon; tis the Violation of that Chastity, which is Enjoined upon us, by the Seventh Commandment, in the Holy, & Just, & Good, Laws of our God. And why is this Luxury called Uncleanness, but because of a Special Filthiness, and Ugliness, which this Vice is attended with? Indeed, such is the Wretchedness of the Corruption, in man, that it is hardly safe so much as to mention in his Hea•ing, the Several kinds of his Damnable Wickedness. It was the Apostolical Council, in Eph. 5.3. All Uncleanness, let it not be once Named among you. And accordingly, The Holy Spirit of God here in our Text, as well as else where, has used a Notable Antiphrasis, to describe the worst Uncleanness by. The word for, The Unclean, is The Holy; because tis not easy to find any word Convenient and Emphatical Enough, to set out the detestable Unholiness, that is in such Uncleanness. However, we may with some Scripture-Phrases indigitate the Chief of those Diabolical Pranks, that are Committed by those whose ⟨p. 42⟩Life is among the Unclean. Briefly,
But then there is One peculiar sort of Wickedness, which the Term of Uncleanness is more strictly put upon; tis the Violation of that Chastity, which is Enjoyned upon us, by the Seventh Commandment, in the Holy, & Just, & Good, Laws of our God. And why is this Luxury called Uncleanness, but because of a Special Filthiness, and Ugliness, which this Vice is attended with? Indeed, such is the Wretchedness of the Corruption, in man, that it is hardly safe so much as to mention in his Hea•ing, the Several kinds of his Damnable Wickedness. It was the Apostolical Council, in Eph. 5.3. All Uncleanness, let it not be once Named among you. And accordingly, The Holy Spirit of God here in our Text, as well as else where, has used a Notable Antiphrasis, to describe the worst Uncleanness by. The word for, The Unclean, is The Holy; because tis not easy to find any word Convenient and Emphatical Enough, to set out the detestable Unholiness, that is in such Uncleanness. However, we may with some Scripture-Phrases indigitate the Chief of those Diabolical Pranks, that are Committed by those whose