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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 2: Assertion. II.
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.
First. The Death of the Unclean, is like to be an Early Death. Of Uncleanness, we may say as the Wise man says of the Adulteress, in Prov. 6.26. It will bent for the Precious Life. The Life will be by that Sin, quickly preyed upon. Tis the Commination of God, in Mal. 3.5. I will be a Swift Witness against the Adulterers. Truly, when our God Comes to Anim•dvert upon them that live in Uncleanness, He will make a Swift work of it. As our Lord says, I will Early Destroy all the wicked of the Land; Why, the Unclean of the Land, are some of the most Wicked in the Land. If you Enquire, Wherefore the Death of the Unclean must be an Early One? For Answer, This, Punishment is both Naturally and Morally Entailed upon them. Uncleanness is a• thing that will Cruelly wast the Bodies of those that are addicted thereunto; as the Apostle saith, He that Committeth Fornication, Sinneth against his own Body. So may it be said of him that Committeth any other Uncleanness whatsoever. Tis said about Uncleanness, in Prov. 5.8,11. Remove thy way▪ far from her; Lest thou mourn at Last, when thy Flesh and thy Body are Consumed. It will bloodily Disturb ⟨p. 47⟩the Frame our Bodies, and Exhaust and Poison the Spirits, in our Bodies, until an Incurable Consumption at Last, shall out us down, out of Time. It procures many Grievous Diseases: Hence come Gouts, Cramps, Palsies, and Scorbutic Taints, upon the whole Mass with in us: Yea, There is a Grievous Disease that sometimes Invades Horses, and because that Men do now so much Play the Brui•, that very Grievous ••• ease, is in a disguise come upon Men also, to Chastise their Bru•shness The Seventh Commandment well fellows the Sixth; Uncleanness has a Self Murder in it. •ut that which further •astens this misery of Uncleanness, is the Just Revenge of Almighty God upon it. It was the Almighty God upon it. It was the Admenn, in