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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.
First. Whatever you do, you must keep this Rule as your Life; Let not your Life, be among the Unclean. Have you fallen into the Quagmires of Uncleanness? O Get up, like true Sheep, immediately; get your selves Washed in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Rinsed in the Saving Waters of Regeneration and Repentance; yea, Let the Fifty First Psalm for ever be the Tune of your Devotions. About this you have cause to be the more earnest, because there are very few Recovered out of this Iniquity. Says the Wise man, in Prov. 2. 19. Few Return! even when they are quite worn out, their poisoned Souls will still be using Looks, and Words, that show them to be still Open Sepulchres. O Return, if possible, Return. And now, whenever and however you may ⟨p. 64⟩be Urged any more unto Uncleanness, Repel the Temptations, as the pious young Joseph did, in Gen. 39. 9. How can I do this great Wickedness, and sin against God! If the Temptation grow yet more outrageous, what if you should set your selves to Sing unto the Lord a proper Hymn, that may be a special Antidote against the Infestations of the Fiery Flying Serpents? It may be Music may Compose and Allay the Roils in your Souls, and the Evil Spirit may withdraw, at the Harp of David.
First. Whatever you do, you must keep this Rule as your Life; Let not your Life, be among the Unclean. Have you fallen into the Quagmires of Uncleanness? O Get up, like true Sheep, immediately; get your selves Washed in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Rinsed in the Saving Waters of Regeneration and Repentance; yea, Let the Fifty First Psalm for ever be the Tune of your Devotions. About this you have cause to be the more earnest, because there are very few Recovered out of this Iniquity. Says the Wiseman, in Prov. 2. 19. Few Return! even when they are quite worn out, their poisoned Souls will still be using Looks, and Words, that show them to be still Open Sepulchres. O Return, if possible, Return. And now, whenever and however you may ⟨p. 64⟩be Urged any more unto Uncleanness, Repel the Temptations, as the pious young Joseph did, in