Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital…

But it is to be Feared, That the most Fearful of all those Judgments, are least of all observed Namely, The Judgments wherein the Holy God Punisheth one Sin with another, and Leaves a woeful Sinner, yet more woefully to Sin against Him. Sirs, These Judgments of God, are of all the most Fearful; and yet, alas, they are of all the most Frequent. Of these amazing Judgments, we may say, How unsearchable are th• Judgments of God, and His Ways past finding out

But it is to be Feared, That the most Fearful of all those Judgments, are least of all observed Namely, The Iudgments wherein the Holy God Punisheth one Sin with another, and Leaves a woful Sinner, yet more wofully to Sin against Him. Sirs, These Judgments of God, are of all the most Fearful; and yet, alas, they are of all the most Frequent. Of these amazing Judgments, we may say, How unsearchable are th• Judgments of God, and His Wayes past finding out

These are the Judgments of God now before us. The Apostle of the Gentiles, is here declaring, the Means to know God, which the Gentiles and particularly, the Romans, had Enjoyed is the Light of Nature; and relating how they neglected and abused those Means, in their not Glorifying Him as God; but Inventing, and Erecting and Adoring vain Images of Him. The progress of the Divine Judgments, against the Forlorn Gentiles, for their not Glorifying of God, […] here described unto us. God Left them, Fo• this cause, in the first place, to become vain in thei• Imaginations. It is a marvellous Thing, I hav• often marvelled at it! That while the more Barbarous Nations have Worshipped the Sun, th• Moon, the Stars, and the more specious and gli••tering Objects of Idolatry; such Learned Nations as the Egyptians worshipped a Bull, a Dog and a Rat; The Learned Graecians, worship Fevers, and Passions, for their Gods; and o• most Learned Romans worshipped the very Fur