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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.
Secondly, The Death of the Unclean, ⟨p. 49⟩is, like also to be a Woeful Death. There are indeed Innumerable Woes, which they that Live in Uncleanness, are, while they Live, Exposed unto. Particularly, If they come to be settled in a Marriage, among their Neighbours: 'tis well, if they don't meet with sore Crosses, Vanities and Vexations, in their Marriage, to Correct them for the Uncleanness, in which while they were Single they indulged themselves. When David had been Unclean, this followed upon it, in 2 Sam. 12. 10,11. The Sword shall never depart from the House; Behold, I will Raise up Evil against thee, out of thine own House. But it is when thy come to Die, that the Unclean see the Extremity of their Woes.
Secondly, The Death of the Unclean, ⟨p. 49⟩is, like also to be a Woful Death. There are indeed Innumerable Woes, which they that Live in Uncleanness, are, while they Live, Exposed unto. Particularly, If they come to be settled in a Marriage, among their Neighbours: 'tis well, if they don't meet with sore Crosses, Vanities and Vexations, in their Marriage, to Correct them for the Uncleanness, in which while they were Single they indulged themselves. When David had been Unclean, this follow'd upon it, in 2 Sam. 12. 10,11. The Sword shall never depart from the House; Behold, I will Raise up Evil against thee, out of thine own House. But it is when thy come to Dy, that the Unclean see the Extremity of their Woes.
If you Enquire, Wherein the Death of the Unclean will be a Woeful One? For Answer, It will Probably be in much Poverty, however in much Dishonour, that the Unclean must leave the World. Uncleanness, is that whereof we are told, in Prov.6.26