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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.
IX. Finally; Let us with a very particular and profitable Notice, Entertain the Warnings, of such as we have seen left unto Sins, that have at last brought Public Shame upon them. We see Criminals ever now and then brought forth among us, who in their Confessions acknowledge, ⟨p. 51⟩what Sins they were, for which the Holy God left them unto the Grosser Sins, that have at last brought Ruin upon them. Those Confessions, what are they but so many Warnings from God unto us all, to Hear and Fear, and beware of doing any such Dangerous Wickedness? In the Name of God, Sirs, Take these Warnings, lest we also be left unto the Sins, that have proved so Fatal unto others.
IX. Finally; Let us with a very particular and profitable Notice, Entertain the Warnings, of such as we have seen left unto Sins, that have at last brought Publick Shame upon them. We see Criminals ever now and then brought forth among us, who in their Confessions acknowledge, ⟨p. 51⟩what Sins they were, for which the Holy God left them unto the Grosser Sins, that have at last brought Ruin upon them. Those Confessions, what are they but so many Warnings from God unto us all, to Hear and Fear, and beware of doing any such Dangerous Wickedness? In the Name of God, Sirs, Take these Warnings, lest we also be left unto the Sins, that have proved so Fatal unto others.
I must now Report unto you, the Horrible Cries, that I have known uttered, by Detected Sinners, under the Loads of Public Shame, in the Hours of their Distresses.
I must now Report unto you, the Horrible Cries, that I have known uttered, by Detected Sinners, under the Loads of Publick Shame, in the Hours of their Distresses.