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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
REFLECTIONS on the Dreadful CASE of Sin Punished With Sin. › Case 1 › Conclusion 1: Conclusion. I.
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Conclusion. I.
There are certain Spiritual Plagues, as well as Temporal Plagues, among those Terrible Things, which a Sinful world is justly Plagued withal. Temporal Plagues, or, Disastrous Blows upon men, in their Secular concerns, are not the only Punishments, that their Sins are chastised withal; Calamities that befall Sinful men more immediately in their Outward man; Such as Poverty, and Slavery, and Reproach, and Sickness, and the Embittermen•s and Abbreviations of the Natural Life, are not all the Sc•u•ges, with which the Sins of men are punished. There is another Sort of Arrows, in the terrible Quiver of the Sin-Revenging Lord: Even Spiritual Plagues, or direful and i•e•ul Strokes from God, upon the Spirits of them, that Sin against Him. In these Plagues, the God of Heaven, saith, as to that Sinner, in Exod. 9.14. I will send my plagues upon thy Heart; The Heart, the Soul, is the Object, that these Plagues, more immediately fall upon
There are certain Spiritual Plagues, as well as Temporal Plagues, among those Terrible Things, which a Sinful world is justly Plagued wi•hal. Temporal Plagues, or, Disastrous Blows upon men, in their Secular concerns, are not the only Punishments, that their Sins are chastis'd withal; Calamities that befal Sinful men more immediately in their Outward man; Such as Poverty, and Slavery, and Reproach, and Sickness, and the Embittermens and Abbreviations of the Natural Life, are not all the Scuges, with which the Sins of men are punished. There is another Sort of Arrows, in the teible Quiver of the Sin-Revenging Lord: Even Spiritual Plagues, or direful and ieul Strokes from God, upon the Spirits of them, that Sin against Him. In these Plagues, the God of Heaven, saith, as to that Sinner, in