Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital…

Let us more particularly, take up these Apprehensions Concerning it.

I. The Original Sin, which man hath Depraved himself withal, contains in it▪ an hideous and hellish Disposition, to Every Sin whatsoever▪ Besides our Actual Sins which are Numberless, we have within us, an Original Sin which indeed, the Original of them all. Of this do •ome understand, what they so Read, in Psal. 90.•. Thou hast set our Secret in the light of thy countenance; even that Sin, that is of all the most ⟨p. 15⟩Secret; the Original Sin defiling of our Hearts within us. However, of this most plainly, we have that Confession, in Psal. 51.5. Behold, I was shapen in Iniquity, and in sin did my Mother conceive me. Our First Parents, whom God justly made the Representatives of all mankind, were made Mutable; and it was no Unjust Thing in the God of Heaven to make them thus Mutable: Immutability is the prerogative of God alone. These […] Parents being thus Mutable, abused the Liberty o• their own will, and by Sinning against God, they brought a Pravity upon their Natures. This Pravity is with all possible Equity unavoidably derived unto Us, their Children; who accordingly bring Vicious Natures into the World with us. Now, in this Original Sin of our Natures, there are the Se•ds of all the Wickedness Imaginable. We are told, in Matth 15.19 Out of the Heart proceed Evil Thoughts, Murders, Adulteries, Fornications, Thefts, False Witness, Blasphemies. But we are sure, There comes nothing out of the Vessel, which was not first in the Vessel. Truly, This Evil Figment (as the Jews call it) in the Heart, is perpetually Forging of Wickedness, and it naturally carries us to all the villainies which a wicked world was ever defaced withal. When you have brought in (if you can do it) a Catalogue, of all the monstrous Enormities, that have been drying this World for the Fires of the Last Conflagration, Then let me say, In my