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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.
Yea, But if we are forward enough to throw away our Lives, in a way of Courage, yet, Oh! Let us not be so in […] way of Wickedness, and of Uncleanness. Young man, why so fast? If thou arrive at Hell, half an Hundred Years hence, one would think, That should be soon enough! But art thou mad upon going down to dwell in the Consuming Fire, and in the Everlasting Burnings; before the ordinary period of Humane Life? Foolish Youth! Who hath Bewitched thee? Consid•• seriously, the direful Concomitants of the Death, which thou art in such a furious career unto: The Rattle Snake is Leaping apace towards thee, young man; and it will fasten a thousand Stings […] thy Soul, when it shall shortly Coil about ••ee. Consider, the Anguish which […] wilt feel in thy Heart, when thou art passing out of this World. How wilt thou Mourn at the Last, and then Gnash thy Teeth, What a Fool was I thus to destroy my own Life and Soul for ever! For a young man to be thus Cursed, Like a Sinner of an Hundred Years Old! Consider the Welcome which the Devils will give thee, at thy passing into the other World. How will those Fiends of ⟨p. 63⟩Darkness then insult over thee? and say, What? Are you come hither! Young man, whence came you? what, from a place where you had the Gospel of God ever Sounding in your Ears! Do they then from such a place as that, make such haste unto this Place of Torment! And O Consider the Everlasting Regret, that will Torture thy Soul, when thou shalt have the Unclean Dragons of the Wilderness, about thee for ever.
Yea, But if we are forward enough to throw away our Lives, in a way of Courage, yet, Oh! Let us not be so in 〈…〉 way of Wickedness, and of Uncleaness. Young man, why so fast? If thou arrive at Hell, half an Hundred Years hence, one would think, That should be soon enough! But art thou mad upon going down to dwell in the Consuming Fire, and in the Everlasting Burnings; before the ordinary period of Humane Life? Foolish Youth! Who hath Bewitched thee? Consid•• seriously, the direful Concomitants of the Death, which thou art in such a furious career unto: The Rattle Snake is Leaping apace towards thee, young man; and it will fasten a thousand Stings 〈…〉 thy Soul, when it shall shortly Coyl about ••ee. Consider, the Anguish which wilt feel in thy Heart, when thou art passing out of this World. How wilt thou Mourn at the Last, and then Gnash thy Teeth, What a Fool was I thus to destroy my own Life and Soul for ever! For a young man to be thus Cursed, Like a Sinner of an Hundred Years Old! Consider the Welcome which the Devils will give thee, at thy passing into the other World. How will those Fiends of