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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.
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 ⟨p. 35⟩see Malefactors in chains, or hear of the most Criminal & Capital offences committed, it becomes us, most sensibly to confess, Lord, It is from thy Grace, thy Free Grace, thy Rich Grace alone, that I am not in the circumstances, of those Doleful creatures! Being therefore very jealous of our own propensity to Sin, let us, make that Prayer continually, in Psal. 119.133. Lord, Order my steps in thy word, and let not any Iniquity have Dominion over me. Make that Prayer continually, in Psal. 13.3, 4. O Lord my God, Lighten mine Eyes, least I sleep the sleep of Death, least mine Enemies say. I have prevailed against him, and those that trouble me, Rejoice when I am moved.
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 Akes 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