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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 2: Conclusion II.
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.
Conclusion II.
As an Instance of Spiritual Plagues, The Oracles of God, have often told us, That Some Sins, are not only Consequents, but also Punishments of others. To this purpose, we have that famous passage, in Isa. 6.10. where, the people who had sinfully Stopped their Ears, and Shut their Eyes, have this Judgment passed upon them for it; Make the heart of this people Fat, & make their Ears Heavy, and Shut their Eyes. The whole Jewish Nation, have now for many Ages, been a Flaming Monument of such Plagues, and Fulfilment of the Prophecy that predicted them: God hath for this Cause given them up to a vile Unbelief: they are Shut up in Unbelief, as in the Utter Darkness of a Prison, because they have to criminally Refused the Lord Messiah; and in that Prison of Unbelief, must they Lie punished, until the Times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. The Wrath of Heaven, does not Now commonly with such Visible Strokes from Heaven, cut off them that have provoked it, as perhaps it commonly did, when the Lord more visibly Exhibited Himself, as a King among His People, in the Mosaic Pedagogy. But Spiritual Plagues, and such Derelictions, and such Dispensations, as more immediately affect the Spirits of men, with a Confirmed ⟨p. 9⟩State of Sin, are those that are now Scattered like Brimstone on mens Habitations. And yet such Plagues also were of Old ••flicted, as well as Now. Hence we read, in Psal. 81.11, 12. My people would not Hearken to my voice; so I gave them up, unto their own Hearts Lust, and they walked in their own counsels. This was to punish mens former Sins, by giving them up to further Sins; even all the other Sins, that their own Hearts Lust would incline them unto. Hence we read, in