Yea, How many have R•pen•ed themselves, for the most Capital Strokes of the Sword of Justice, by this Wickedness! I have known several who under a Sentence of Death, for other Crimes wherein they thought themselves hardly dealt withal, have cried out, Oh! 'Tis for my Secret Adulteries, that the Holy God, has brought all this upon me! And how many Young Women, have been Executed among us, for Murdering of their Bastard Infants! But, at their Execution, this has been their Exclamation, Oh! 'that all young people, ⟨p. 45⟩would beware of the Snares of Uncleanness: By continuing in those woeful Snares, without any speedy Repentance, we have been Ruined! One of the first in this Land, that came to such an End, [Her Name was Martin,] had yielded unto a Wicked man soliciting her Chastity: but with such Reluctances of Soul, that in her Prayers to God, for Help, she said, If ever she were overtaken again, she would Leave her self unto His Justice to be made an Example. She Remembered not her Vows, but was again overtaken: She Conceived, she Travailed, she privately Destroyed her Child, using Two several Attempts before she could wholly dispatch it. Afterwards, upon a Removal of the Family, the Murder strangely came to Light: God made the Infant Bleed afresh before her, for her Confusion; She owned the whole Truth, and she Died for i•: But she was Twice Turned off, before her Expiration. Say then, Say, my Friends, to all the Temptations of Uncleanness, How shall I do this Wickedness, and Sin against God!
Yea, How many have R•pen•ed themselves, for the most Capital Strokes of the Sword of Justice, by this Wickedness! I have known several who under a Sentence of Death, for other Crimes wherein they thought themselves hardly dealt withal, have cryed out, Oh! 'Tis for my Secret Adulteries, that the Holy God, has brought all this upon me! And how many Young Women, have been Executed among us, for Murdering of their Bastard Infants! But, at their Execution, this has been their Exclamation, Oh! 'that all young people, ⟨p. 45⟩would beware of the Snares of Uncleanness: By continuing in those woful Snares, without any speedy Repentance, we have been Ruined! One of the first in this Land, that came to such an End, [Her Name was Martin,] had yielded unto a Wicked man solliciting her Chastity: but with such Reluctances of Soul, that in her Prayers to God, for Help, she said, If ever she were overtaken again, she would Leave her self unto His Justice to be made an Example. She Remembred not her Vows, but was again overtaken: She Conceived, she Travailed, she privately Destroy'd her Child, using Two several Attempts before she could wholly dispatch it. Afterwards, upon a Removal of the Family, the Murder strangely came to Light: God made the Infant Bleed afresh before her, for her Confusion; She own'd the whole Truth, and she Dy'd for i•: But she was Twice Turn'd off, before her Expiration. Say then, Say, my Friends, to all the Temptations of Uncleanness, How shall I do this Wickedness, and Sin against God!
