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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.
H. S. I hope I am.
Min. And what Reason for that Hope?
H. S. I find all my Sins made so bitter to me, that if I were to have my life given me this Afternoon, to Live such a Life as I have Lived heretofore▪ I would not accept of it; I had rather Dy.
Min. That is well ▪ if it be True. But suffer me a little to search into the Condition of your Soul. Are you sensible, That you were Born • Sinner? That the Guilt of the First Sin committed by Adam, is justly charged upon you? And that you have hereupon a Wicked Nature in you ⟨p. 87⟩full of Enmity against all that […] Holy, and Just, and Good? For when you deserved to be destroyed, as soon as you first came into this world.