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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 Sept. 22. 1681. One W. C. was Executed at Boston, for a Rape committed by him, on a Girl, that Lived with him; though he had then a Wife with Child by him, of a Nineteenth or Twentieth Child.
This man, had been Wicked Overmuch. His Parents, were Godly Persons; but he was a Child of Belial. He began Early, to Shake off his Obedience unto Them; and Early had Fornication ⟨p. 70⟩laid unto his Charge; after which, he fled unto a desolate Corner of the Land, a place whereof it might he said, Surely, the Fear of God, is not in this Place: He being a Youth, under the Inspection of the Church at Roxbury, they, to win him invited him to Return unto his Friends, with such Expressions of Lenity towards him, that the Reverend Old Man, their Pastor, in a Sermon, on the Day when this man was Executed, with Tears bewailed it.
This man, had been Wicked Overmuch. His Parents, were Godly Persons; but he was a Child of Belial. He began Early, to Shake off his Obedience unto Them; and Early had Fornication ⟨p. 70⟩laid unto his Charge; after which, he fled unto a dissolate Corner of the Land, a place whereof it might he said, Surely, the Fear of God, is not in this Place: He being a Youth, under the Inspection of the Church at Roxbury, they, to win him invited him to Return unto his Friends, with such Expressions of Lenity towards him, that the Reverend Old Man, their Pastor, in a Sermon, on the Day when this man was Executed, with Tears bewayled it.