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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.
At hene si Moritur, Vita Perennis erit. The man is to Live in another and better World forever; Even for infinitely, more than Hundreds of Thousands; of Millions of Ages. His Life, in that World, after the Efflux of more Years, than the Stars in the Sky, than the Sands; on the Shore, than the Drops of Water in the Deepest Ocean, shall be no nearer to an End, than the first Minute it Commenced! Of Religion, I do then say with Moses, in Deut. 32. 47. Man, it is thy Life! A Bad man once cried out, Wh• shall Live? And a Good man after long answered the Problem so, The Just, he shall Live.
At hene si Moritur, Vita Perennis erit. The man is to Live in another and better World forever; Even for infinitely, more than Hundreds of Thousands; of Millions of Ages. His Life, in that World, after the Efflux of more Years, than the Stars in the Sky, than the Sands; on the Shore, than the Drops of Water in the Deepest Ocean, shall be no nearer to an End, than the first Minute it Commenced! Of Religion, I do then say with Moses, in Deut. 32. 47. Man, it is thy Life! A Bad man once cry'd out, Wh• shall Live? And a Good man after long answered the Problem so, The Just, he shall Live.
II. Behold, One Ground of the Mortality, which we daily Behold upon the Rising Generation in our Land. What multitudes among us, do we see Die in Youth! This Land is making the Lamentation that was made by the Church of old, The Lord ha's called an Assembly against me, to Crush my Young men, How many Scores of Young men have sometime […] ⟨p. 57⟩been lost from one Little Town, within two or three Years, by the Disastrous Plagues and Wars that have been upon us! And how many of our Young men that have Travelled into other Countries, have there fallen under the Terrible Hand of God! Unto us may our God say, as He said unto Israel of old, Your, Young men have I Slain. But what for, I pray? Now, Methinks, the Wickedness, & Especially the Uncleanness too rise among our Young People, should be acknowledged, among the Causes of these Calamities. What said the Prophet in