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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.
Let me now, with all due Solemnity Address all those who are yet in their Youth, with some Necessary Crho•tations unto those things, that may prevent their Dying in this their Youth. When Solomon was going to make the Report, of the Wickedness, and especially of the Uncleanness, practised in Jerusalem, he said, in Prov. 7. 7. I Discerned among the Youths, a Young Man void of Understanding, Such an one there was in the Snares of Death. Are there none of those Youths, no such Young Ones, void of Understanding, or, at least, none that are in a desperate Hazard of becoming such, in this Great Congregation? It is with You, that we are now to Expostulate; and unto you, I say; Consider what you are doing, Consider where you are going; Hear the Compassionate Jesus now Sighing over you, O that they were wise, and that they would Consider their Latter End! Upon every Act of more Enormous Wickedness, and especially of Uncleanness; you may say, as in Isa 38. 12. I have out […] my Life. You Ripe•• in Sin apace, except you Bewail and Forsake that Sin. You are Likely to Die in Youth, if you do not now Turn in Youth, from the ⟨p. 62⟩Sins that make you worthy to Dy. It has been Celebrated, as a property of our Nation; They are, [as Lucan said of Another] Prodiga Gens Animi, properare facillima morte••.
Let me now, with all due Solemnity Address all those who are yet in their Youth, with some Necessary Crho•tations unto those things, that may prevent their Dying in this their Youth. When Solomon was going to make the Report, of the Wickedness, and especially of the Uncleanness, practised in Jerusalem, he said, in Prov. 7. 7. I Discerned among the Youths, a Young Man void of Understanding, Such an one there was in the Snares of Death. Are there none of those Youths, no such Young Ones, void of Understanding, or, at least, none that are in a desperate Hazzard of becoming such, in this Great Congregation? It is with You, that we are now to Expostulate; and unto you, I say; Consider what you are doing, Consider where you are going; Hear the Compassionate Jesus now Sighing over you, O that they were wise, and that they would Consider their Latter End! Upon every Act of more Enormous Wickedness, and especially of Uncleanness; you may say, as in Isa 38. 12. I have out my Life. You Ripe in Sin apace, except you Bewayl and Forsake that Sin. You are Likely to Dy in Youth, if you do not now Turn in Youth, from the