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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. 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⟩you count your self most Innocent: and see whether you do not presently confess your self Guilty thereabout. I may not leave this point slightly passed over with you.
Min. But you must Remember, That th• Commandment is Exceeding Broad; it reaches t• the Heart as well as the Life: it includes Omisions as well as Commissions, and it at once bot• Requires and Forbids. But I pray, make an exp• riment upon any one Commandment, in whic• ⟨p. 88⟩you count your self most Innocent: and see whether you do not presently confess your self Guilty thereabout. I may not leave this point slightly passed over with you.