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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 Hugh Stone, upon a Quarrel, between himself & his Wife, about Selling a piece of and having some words, as they were walking together, on a certain Evening, very barbarously reached a stroke at her Throat, with a Sharp knife; and by that One Stroke fetched away the Soul, of her, who had made him a Father of several Children, and would have brought yet another to him, if she had lived a few weeks longer in the world. The wretched man, was too soon Surprised by his Neighbours, to be capable of Denying the Fact; and so he pleaded, Guilty, upon his Trial.
ONe Hugh Stone, upon a Quarrel, between himself & his Wife, about Selling a piece of and having some words, as they were walking together, on a certain Evening, very barbarously reached a stroke at her Throat, with a Sharp knife; and by that One Stroke fetch'd away the Soul, of her, who had made him a Father of several Children, and would have brought yet another to him, if she had lived a few weeks longer in the world. The wretched man, was too soon Surprised by his Neighbours, to be capable of Denying the Fact; and so he pleaded, Guilty, upon his Tryal.
There was a Minister that walked with him to his Execution; and I shall insert the principal Passages of the Discourse between them; in which ⟨p. 86⟩the Reader may find or make something useful to himself, what ever it were to the Poor ma• who was more immediately concerned in it.
There was a Minister that walk'd with him to his Execution; and I shall insert the principal Passages of the Discourse between them; in which ⟨p. 86⟩the Reader may find or make something useful to himself, what ever it were to the Poor ma• who was more immediately concerned in it.