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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.
One of them, said, His Pride had been his Bane; For, he thought much of it, that such a one as he, should be a Servant; and he would sometimes utter such words as these, I am Flesh and Blood; as well as my Master, and therefore I know no Reason, why my Master should not obey me, as well as I obey him. And now, said he, See what my Pride ha's brought me to!
One of them also, said, That his Idleness had Ruined him: He would not Industriously follow his Calling, but Live an Idle, Slothful, Vagrant Life. This, he said, had undone him.
One of them also, said, That his Idleness had Ruin'd him: He would not Industriously follow his Calling, but Live an Idle, Slothful, Vagrant Life. This, he said, had undone him.
And one of them, said, That his Disobedience to his Parents, had brought this misery upon him. His Father, he said, gave him Good Instructions, when he was a Child: but he Regarded them not. He would not go to a School, when his Father would have sent him to it. He would not go to a Trade, when his Father, would have put him to one. After his Father was Dead, he would not be Subject unto them that had the Charge of him; he ran away from Them; and after that, he ran away from several Masters. Thus he Ran into the laws of Death.