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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.
And there is another Observable Thing, here proper to be mentioned. The Sins of our Children, are in some regard our own. Let it be now Remembered, That if we Loose the Penitent Remembrance of our own Youthful Vanities, God will Remember against us the Sins of our Youth, by Leaving our Children, to Do in their Youth, as we did in ours. We Live to see our Children Left unto those very Sins, which were the Iniquities of our Heels, but the Sorrowful Remembrance whereof, we have too much Laid at our Heels; 'Tis for our doing so, that God leaves them to act our Old Sins over again, and Revive ⟨p. 46⟩in us the Sorrowful Remembrance of them, and bring our Grey Hairs with sorrow to the Grave.
And there is another Observable Thing, here proper to be mentioned. The Sins of our Children, are in some regard our own. Let it be now Remembred, That if we Loose the Paenitent Remembrance of our own Youthful Vanities, God will Remember against us the Sins of our Youth, by Leaving our Children, to Do in their Youth, as we did in ours. We Live to see our Children Left unto those very Sins, which were the Iniquities of our Heels, but the Sorrowful Remembrance whereof, we have too much Laid at our Heels; 'Tis for our doing so, that God leaves them to act our Old Sins over again, and Revive ⟨p. 46⟩in us the Sorrowful Remembrance of them, and bring our Gray Hairs with sorrow to the Grave.
VII. Let us all take heed of Sinning with Presumption ; for Sin is mostly and justly the punishment of all presumptuous Wickedness. 'Tis not usually for Sins of Infirmity, that God sends this Horrendous Damnation upon a Sinner, To give him up unto Sin: 'Tis for Sins of presumption, that is to say, when men Sin, and Know that they Sin: 'Tis as we are here told, for Holding the Truth in Unrighteousness; that is to say, when men Know the Truth, and yet will Do Unrighteousness. Hence was that Supplication and Expectation, in