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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.
Min. What do you mean?
Mor. I over heard a man mocking and scoffing at me when I stumbled just now, he does very ill. I have done so my self. I have mocked and scoffed like that man, and see what it hath brought me to; he may came to the like.
Mor. I over heard a man mocking and scoffing at me when I stumbled just now, he does very ill. I have done so my self. I have mock'd and scoff'd like that man, and see what it hath brought me to; he may came to the like.
Min. The Lord forgive that foolish hard hearted creature. But be not too much disturbed.
Mor. Yonder! I am now come in sight of the place where I must immediately end my days. Oh what a huge Multitude of people is come together on this occasion. O Lord, O Lord, I pray thee to make ⟨p. 81⟩my Death profitable to all this Multitude of People, that they may not sin against thee as I have done.