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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.
Moreover, The Dying Malefactors among us, have not seldom Lamented, the Sin, and Snare of, Evil Company Keeping. You have been told, A Companion of Fools shall be Destroyed. And I have seen the Destroyed Creatures making those out cries, Ah! This I have got, by keeping so much Company with Fools; 'Tis my wicked Company, that has brought me to This! O my Young Folks, Take this Warning; If you Love your Lives, Forsake the Foolish, and Live. There is nothing that more Infects our Young Folks with Wickedness, ⟨p. 55⟩than their Wicked Company. Our Ears are filled with Complaints, That there is a knot of Young Beau's in this Town, by whose Vicious courses, all our more Hopeful Sons, are in danger to be infected, poisoned, ruined. If any of those Lewd Youths, are now present in this Assembly, I Leave this Warning from God upon you, That it is to be feared, God will make some of you Examples, of an Early and a woeful Death, for your Impieties. But, as for Thee, My Son, if those First-rate Sinners Entice thee, Oh, consent thou not!
Moreover, The Dying Malefactors among us, have not seldome Lamented, the Sin, and Snare of, Evil Company Keeping. You have been told, A Companion of Fools shall be Destroy'd. And I have seen the Destroy'd Creatures making those out cries, Ah! This I have got, by keeping so much Company with Fools; 'Tis my wicked Company, that has brought me to This! O my Young Folks, Take this Warning; If you Love your Lives, Forsake the Foolish, and Live. There is nothing that more Infects our Young Folks with Wickedness, ⟨p. 55⟩than their Wicked Company. Our Ears are fill'd with Complaints, That there is a knot of Young Beau's in this Town, by whose Vicious courses, all our more Hopeful Sons, are in danger to be infected, poisoned, ruined. If any of those Lew'd Youths, are now present in this Assembly, I Leave this Warning from God upon you, That it is to be fear'd, God will make some of you Examples, of an Early and a woful Death, for your Impieties. But, as for Thee, My Son, if those First-rate Sinners Entice thee, Oh, consent thou not!