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

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 1 Chron. 21.1. Satan stood up, and provoked David, to do a Thing, wherein a positive Commandment of God was ⟨p. 45⟩neglected; and, what a world of Mischief ensued upon it! Even Good men are sometimes left unto very Heart breaking Sins; Why? Because their Hearts, which were once Broken for the Lamentable Sins of their Youth, are grown Proud, and Vain, and carnal, and Corkish, and Frothy, and have lost the Tenderness, & Watchfulness, which they were once Humbled into. They too much loose that Frame of Repentance for Old Sins, which they should maintain all their Days, and God leaves them to New Sins, that so their Old Wounds may Bleed afresh, and the work of Repentance be duly Renewed in them. We shall now have those Lamentations from them, in Lam. 3.19, 20· Remembering the Wormwood and the Gall; my Soul ha's them still in Remembrance, and is Humbled in me!

VI. Let us walk Humbly, and Softly, and Sadly, all our Dayes, 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'l quickly Hear of New Ones! Now, as in 1 Chron. 21.1. Satan stood up, and provoked David, to do a Thing, wherein a positive Commandment of God was ⟨p. 45⟩neglected; and, what a world of Mischief ensued upon it! Even Good men are sometimes left unto very Heart breaking Sins; Why? Because their Hearts, which were once Broken for the Lamentable Sins of their Youth, are grown Proud, and Vain, and carnal, and Corkish, and Frothy, and have lost the Tenderness, & Watenfulness, which they were once Humbled into. They too much loose that Frame of Repentance for Old Sins, which they should mentain all their Dayes, and God leaves them to New Sins, that so their Old Wounds may Bleed afresh, and the work of Repentance be duely Renewed in them. We shall now have those Lamentations from them, in