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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. Truly, There is no other Name by which we may be saved? The Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, is that alone, in which you may safely anon appear before the Judgment Seat of God. And that Righteousness is by the marvellous and infinite Grace of God, offered unto you. But do you find, that as you have no Righteousness, so you have no Strength? that you cannot of your self move or stir, towards the Lord Jesus Christ, though you justly perish if you do not Run unto Him? that it is the Grace of God alone which must enable you to accept of Salvation from the Great Saviour?
H. S. Sir, my Case in short is This, I have laid my self at the Feet of the Lord Jesus Christ for my Salvation; and had it not been for His mere Grace and Help, I had never been able to do That. But there I have laid and left my self; I have nothing to plead, why he should accept of me. If He will do it, I am happy, but if He will not, I am undone for ever; it had been good for me that I never had been Born.
H. S. Sir, my Case in short is This, I have laid my self at the Feet of the Lord Jesus Christ for my Salvation; and had it not been for His meer Grace and Help, I had never been able to do That. But there I have laid and left my self; I have nothing to plead, why he should accept of me. If He will do it, I am happy, but if He will not, I am undone for ever; it had been good for me that I never had been Born.
Min. And you must justify Him if He should Reject you. You surprise me, with at once giving me so much of the Discourse, which all this while I have been labouring for. I can add but this! The good Lord make you sincere in what you say! — Your Crime lay in Blood; and your Help also, That lies in Blood. I am to offer you the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, as that in which you may now have the Pardon of all your sins. Now you may try the sincerity of your Faith in the Blood of the Lord Jesus for a Pardon, by this. Have you an Hope in that Blood, for all the other saving effects of it? shall I explain what I mean?