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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 cannot well answer to that. My Answer may be liable to some Exceptions. — This I own, I have broken every Commandment on the Account mentioned by the Apostle James; That he who breaks one is Guilty of all. But not otherwise.
Min. Alas, That you know your self no better than so! I do affirm to you, that you have particularly broken every one of the Commandments; and you must be sensible of it.
H. S. I can't see it.
H. S. I cann't see it.
Min. But you must Remember, That th• Commandment is Exceeding Broad; it reaches t• the Heart as well as the Life: it includes Omissions as well as Commissions, and it at once bot• Requires and Forbids. But I pray, make an expo riment upon any one Commandment, in which ⟨p. 88⟩