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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.
ON November 17. 1698. There was executed in Boston, a miserable Young Woman, whose Extraordinary circumstances rung throughout all New England On this Day of her Execution, was Preached the Sermon, ⟨p. 106⟩which we have now placed, at the Beginning of this History, as an Inscription upon our, Pillars Of Salt. Because the last passage of that Sermon, gave a summary Narrative, of what it is fit the public should know concerning that Criminal, I have Transferred them, into this place. The Sermon Concluded in these words.
ON November 17. 1698. There was executed in Boston, a miserable Young Woman, whose Extraordinary circumstances rung throughout all New England On this Day of her Execution, was Preached the Sermon, ⟨p. 106⟩which we have now placed, at the Beginning of this History, as an Inscription upon our, Pillars Of Salt. Because the last passage of that Sermon, gave a summary Narrative, of what it is fit the publick should know concerning that Criminal, I have Transferr'd them, into this place. The Sermon Concluded in these words.
BE astonished, O Congregation of God, Stand astonished, at the Horrible Spectacle, that is now before You: This House, and perhaps this Land, never had in it a more Astonishing Spectacle.
Behold, a Young Woman, but an Old Sinner, going this Day to Die before her time, for being Wicked over much! Behold, One just Nineteen Years Old, and yet found Ripe for the Vengeance of a Capital Execution. Ah, Miserable Soul, With what a swift progress of Sin and Folly, hast thou made Hast unto the Congregation of the Dead! Behold a Person, whose Unchaste Conversation appeared by one Base Born Child many months ago! God then gave her a Space to Repent, and she repented not: She Repeated her Whoredoms, and by an Infatuation from God upon her, She so managed the matter of her next Base Born, that she is found Guilty of its Murder: Thus the God, whose Eyes are like a Flame of Fire, is now casting her