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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.
In fine. I Remember a Notable Stroke of the Syriac Interpreter, on that passage, in Psal. 9.16. The wicked is snared in the work of his own Hand; unto this purpose, In senectute quando relinquitur Improbus, a Peccato, turpiter ad idem revocatur in Desiderijs. An Old Sinner, who instead of leaving Sin, hath had Sin through Old Age leaving him, is yet in his Old Age again Ensnared with the Lusts of his youth. And when 'tis said, in Psal. 11.6. Upon the Wicked, God shall Rain Snares; I Remember some of the Ancients make this gloss upon it; Laquei sunt Vetera Peccata (et cupidines) iterum praedominantia; The Snares of the wicked, are their old Lusts again getting power over them: As the Poet complains of it, in a man of Fifty years Old, Intermissa Venus diu, Rursus Bella moves. Alas, how often do we see God, thus leaving men, to Ensnaring Unchastity.
In fine. I Remember a Notable Stroke of the Syriack Interpreter, on that passage, in Psal. 9.16. The wicked is snared in the work of his own Hand; unto this purpose, In senectute quando relinquitur Improbus, a Peccato, turpiter ad idem revocatur in Desiderijs. An Old Sinner, who instead of leaving Sin, hath had Sin through Old Age leaving him, is yet in his Old Age again Ensnared with the Lusts of his youth. And when 'tis said, in Psal. 11.6. Upon the Wicked, God shall Rain Snares; I Remember some of the Ancients make this gloss upon it; Laquei sunt Vetera Peccata (et cupidines) iterum praedominantia; The Snares of the wicked, are their old Lusts again getting power over them: As the Poet complains of it, in a man of Fifty years Old, Intermissa Venus diu, Rursus Bella moves. Alas, how often do we see God, thus leaving men, to Ensnaring Unchastity.
VI. Let us walk Humbly, and Softly, and Sadly, all our Days, under the sense of Old Sins, that we may not be Punished with New Sins for the Old ones. I will mention to you, a Dismal Thing, which hath before now, befallen a David himself. David seems to have a little Forgotten, that Humiliation, to which his Old Falls had obliged him: And now, you'll quickly Hear of New Ones! Now, as in