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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. 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.
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 commit•ted 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.