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Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital…
Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital crimes. : With some of their dying speeches; collected and published, for the warning of such as live in destructive courses of ungodliness. : Whereto is added, for the better improvement of this history, a brief discourse about the dreadful justice of God, in punishing of sin, with sin. : [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
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.
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ON March 18. 1674. two men, (whose Names were Nicholas Fever, and Robert Driver) were Executed at Boston. The Crime for which they were Executed, was, the Murder of their Master; whom, upon the Provocation of some Chastisement, which he had given them, they knocked on the Head, with an Axe, in their Bloody Rage.
ON March 18. 1674. two men, (whose Names were Nicholas Feavour, and Robert Driver) were Executed at Boston. The Crime for which they were Executed, was, the Murther of their Master; whom, upon the Provocation of some Chastisement, which he had given them, they knock'd on the Head, with an Axe, in their Bloody Rage.
After they were Condemned, they bestowed their Lamentations not only, on the Particular Crime, which had now brought them, to their Untimely End, but also on some Others, for which their Consciences told them, that the Righteous God, had left them unto This.
After they were Condemned, they bestow'd their Lamentations not only, on the Particular Crime, which had now brought them, to their Untimely End, but also on some Others, for which their Consciences told them, that the Righteous God, had left them unto This.