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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.
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IN the Year, 1694 A miserable Indian, called Zechariah, was Executed for Murder.
IN the Year, 1694 A miserable Indian, called Zachary, was Executed for Murder.
He understood so very little English, that it put the English Minister, who, after his Condemnation, visited him, unto an Inexpressible deal of trouble, to convey unto him, the Principles and the Directions of our Holy Religion. But the Lord so succeeded the endeavours used upon the wretched Salvage, that within a little while, he could give a sensible, tho' a Shattered, Account, of the Fundamentals in Christianity. And such an Impression, had the Doctrine of Grace upon him, that he professed himself, desirous rather to Die, than to Live at his Old sinful rate. He seemed, even to long for his Execution, that so he might be delivered from all disposition to Sin against God. But all his Hopes of Everlasting Salvation, he seemed very Suitably to place, on the Obedience which the Lord Jesus Christ, had yielded unto God in the room of Sinners.
He understood so very little English, that it put the English Minister, who, after his Condemnation, visited him, unto an Inexpressible deal of trouble, to convey unto him, the Principles and the Directions of our Holy Religion. But the Lord so succeeded the endeavours used upon the wretched Salvage, that within a little while, he could give a sensible, tho' a Shattered, Account, of the Fundamentals in Christianity. And such an Impression, had the Doctrine of Grace upon him, that he professed himself, desirous rather to Dy, than to Live at his Old sinful rate. He seem'd, even to long for his Execution, that so he might be delivered from all disposition to Sin against God. But all his Hopes of Everlasting Salvation, he seem'd very Suitably to place, on the Obedience which the Lord Jesus Christ, had yeelded unto God in the room of Sinners.