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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.
If your hearts do not Readily, Thankfully, Sincerely Accept this Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, no man can say, what Sin you may be left unto! There is no Sin but what you may be left unto: You have no Assurance, but that you shall Sin Extravagantly, Sin Impenitently, yea, Sin unpardonably. Ti's for this Cause, That I can Foretell, In places where the light of the Gospel, now shines brightest among us▪ We shall see breaking out the most incredible Efforts and Furies of Wickedness.
If your hearts do not Readily, Thankfully, Sincerely Accept this Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, no man can say, what Sin you may be left unto! There is no Sin but what you may be left unto: You have no Assurance, but that you shall Sin Extravagantly, Sin Impenitently, yea, Sin unpardonably. Ti's for this Cause, That I can Foretel, In places where the light of the Gospel, now shines brightest among us▪ We shall see breaking out the most incredible Efforts and Furies of Wickedness.
But under the dread of this, O Soul in peril, do Thou to Day, Hear the Voice of God, in His Gospel! that thou mayest not be Hardened in Sin, and punished with it.
III. Sensible of our own Inability to preserve our selves, let our Prayers to be preserved from Sin, and not punished with Sin, be Daily, be Hearty, be full of Agony. Is there any one person […] who dares pretend, That he is his own Keepe•? I hope, Not one. Be not self confident. Say not, I shall never fall into such or such gross Abominations. Man, my heart Aches to […] thee say so: Thou a•t the most likely of all men, to fall into those very Abominations. There is no Sin more certainly, and more signally punished with Sin, then this vain self confidence. God punished it, in Peter with a Fall, that broke all his bones for him. No, when we